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Genealogical Gleanings
OF
S IGGI NS
AND OTHER
PENNSYLVANIA FAMILIES
OF
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY
AND
COLONIAL, REVOLUTIONARY, CIVIL AND
OTHER WAR RECORDS
INCLUDING NAMES OF MANY OTHER WARREN COUNTY PIONEERS
COMPILED BY
EMMA SIGGINS WHITE
ASSISTED BY
MARTHA HUMPHREYS MALTBY
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Tiernan-Dart Printikq Co.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1918, by
EMMA BIGGINS WHITE,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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Gbis
Dolume
IS AFFECTIONATELY
Defcicatefc
TO
MY DEAR CHILDREN
E. S. W.
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EXPLANATIONS.
The serial number precedes the name, and when it is
followed by a * indicates that further information, regard-
ing person numbered, will be found elsewhere in this rec-
ord. As an illustration
3.* Frances Siggins 3 ; when next found it will be en-
closed thus: (3), and whenever found enclosed it denotes
that 3 is her original serial number.
The Roman numerals refer to the number of children
in one family.
The small figure following the name is the generation
number.
Abreviations — b. born; d. died; m. married; dau. daugh-
ter; s. succeeded by; unm. unmarried; abt. about; C. W.
Civil War; R. W. Revolutionary War.
The children of John and Sarah (Hood) Siggins, and
their descendants, are traced separately, beginning with the
eldest child.
When a name is enclosed in parentheses, it is the maiden
name of person specified.
In many instances family names are herein spelled in
several different ways. Not being certain which was cor-
rect, we have kept to the spelling found in manuscripts as
they were received.
The numbers indicating names of the Siggins family
in Ireland are preceded by the letter A, as this material was
obtained after the record of the family of John Siggins,
the emigrant, was written and numbered.
The family in America begins with No. 1.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page
Emma Siggins White Frontispiece
Hood Coat of Arms 5
Siggins' Reunion 6
Justina Siggins 7
Josephine Siggins Utter 7
John Wesley ". . : 9
Indian God Rock 18
Old Block House 36
Ann Siggins Adams 47
George Siggins and Son 47
John Edward Siggins 53
Jane Siggins 53
Taylor Coat of Arms 55
Admiral Sir Samuel Hood 59
Alexander Siggins 78
Judge William Siggins i 78
George Siggins 78
George Callander Siggins 80
E. Harriet Siggins Howe 83
George Simpson Siggins 92
Rachel Dawson Siggins 92
Isaac Connely Siggins 96
Silas Lloyd Trask 96
Sabina Siggins Parker 97
Jane Y. Siggins Ferry 97
Mary Siggins 97
Dr. James B. Siggins 104
Judge John Siggins , 108
William Parker Siggins 116
Elizabeth Walters Siggins 116
Captain Peter Grace 134
Annie M. Siggins Grace 134
War Medal of Capt. Peter Grace 136
William Parker Siggins 139
Nathaniel Simpson Siggins 139
Nathaniel Hood Siggins 139
George Siggins Howe 143
Josephine (Siggins) Utter 145
Orion Siggins 146
June Siggins Wheeler 148
Francis A. Wheeler 148
E. Harriet (Siggins) Howe 149
C. C. McCabe Howe 149
John Dawson Howe 151
Walter Simpson Howe 156
Wesley Curtis Howe, Jr 158
William Findley Siggins 171
Edith Diennie (Nelson) Siggins 171
George Callander Siggins 178
David Porter Siggins 178
Isaac Connelly 206
VI ILLUSTRATIONS
Page
William Whitfield Connelly 206
Polly Connelly Chase 207
Anna Alduma Jackson 207
Kinnear Coat of Arms 232
Margaret Kinnear Siggins 234
Henry Kinnelar Siggins 235
Catherine Lockhart Siggins 235
David Henry Siggins 236
Home of Henry Kinnear Siggins 239
Home of George Simpson Siggins 239
Silas Lloyd Trask 248
Benjamin Baird Siggins 254
Eliazbeth Walker Siggins 254
Clinton C. Siggins 256
John Barber White 257
Raymond Baird White 260
Memorial Building 261
Emma Ruth White 264
Benjamin Baird Siggins 267
Henry Kinnear Siggins 267
Benjamin Baird Siggins and grandchildren 273
Laura Siggins Messerly 277
Bertram Messerly 277
Everett J. Messerly 278
James Harold Messerly 278
Warren B. Messerly 278
Jerry Lloyd Siggins 279
Robert A. Siggins 283
Delia (Long) Siggins 283
Nathaniel Siggins 283
Ann (Blakesley) Siggins 283
Lavern A. Siggins • 284
Margaret (Hunter) Siggins 284
John D. Wells 287
Jahu Hunter 294
Livingston LeGrand Hunter 299
Isalac Connely 332
William Connely 336
Rachel (Connely) Evans 336
Hon. Alexander McCalmont 339
Elizabeth (Connely) McCalmont 339
Gen. Alfred B. McCalmont 341
Judge John S. McCalmont 341
"The Black Horse Inn" 351
Connely Coat of Arms 356
Elijah B. Grandin 372
Kimball Coat of Arms 407
Ethan Allen 497
Ira Allen 497
Spencer Co*at of Arms 502
Lord Spencer 505
Anderson Coat of Arms 511
Martha Humphreys Maltby 529
Baker Coat of Arms 539
William Thornton Scott 579
Simpson Coat of Arms 632
Elizabeth Scott Walker 565
REFERENCES Vll
REFERENCES CONSULTED IN THE COMPILATION
OF THIS GENEALOGY.
Pennsylvania Archives, 2d Series, edited by William H.
Eggle, M. D.
History of Warren County, Pennsylvania, edited by J.
S. Schenck.
Lineage Books of the Daughters of the American Rev-
olution.
Pennsylvania Magazine.
History of Chautauqua County, by W. A. Furguson &
Co., Boston, Mass.
History of Connecticut, by Hollister.
Women of Methodism, by Stephen Abel.
Fradenburg's History of Methodism.
Early History of Western Pennsylvania, from Posts
Journal.
Bishop Matthew Simpson's Cyclopoedia of Methodism.
Gregg's History of Methodism.
Stephen's History of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Historical Atlas of Warren County, by J. A. Howden.
Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, by J. T.
McAllister.
Foote's Sketches of Virginia, Second Series.
Annals of Augusta County, with Supplement, by Jos.
A. Waddell.
History of Augusta County, Virginia, by J. Lewis
Peyton.
Virginia County Records, Spotsylvania County, edited
by William Armstrong Crozier, F. R. S.
Ancient Windsor Connecticut, by Henry R. Stiles,
A. M., M. D.
Virginia Cousins, by G. Brown Goode.
Virginia Genealogies, by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden,
M. A.
Genealogical Gleanings in England, by Henry F. Waters,
A. M.
American Ancestry (Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers).
Vlll REFERENCES
William and Mary College Quarterly.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
Historic Families of Kentucky, by T. M. Greene.
Colonial Virginia Register, compiled by William G. and
Mary Newton Stanard.
The Cabells and Their Kin, by Alexander Brown, D. C. L.
Ancestry of John Barber White, compiled by Almira
Larkin White.
Descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland, by
E. S. White.
The Journal of American History.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
Vermont Historical Gazetteer, edited by Abby Maria
Heminway.
Kinnears and Their Kin, compiled by Emma Siggins
White and Martha Humphreys Maltby.
Genealogy of The Kemble Family.
The "Old Northwest" Quarterly.
History of Chautauqua Co., N. Y.
The Founding of Harmon's Station, by William Elsey
Connelley.
Old files of the Forest Republican.
Trenton Canada Courier.
Sligo Independent (Ireland).
Tidioute News ; Warren ; Pleasantville ; Youngsville and
Titusville — Newspapers.
Pension Records, Washington, D. C.
Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, by Hoyt.
Oil City Derrick, Souvenir Edition Franklin Centennial,
Sept. 5, 1895.
Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny
Valley, Pennsylvania. Edited by John W. Jordon, LL D.
Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
The names of other authors appear where data is
quoted.
PREFACE ix
PREFACE
The search for material for this, my third family his-
tory, covers a period of over fifteen years of conscientious
research work in this country, and in Ireland and Scotland.
Much valuable data was accumulated thereby and, as I never
expect to publish another genealogical work, in order to pre-
serve the material so laboriously collected, I decided to in-
clude in this volume all the records compiled by me not con-
tained in my former works. While it represents several
seemingly distinct families, they are all related, either by
blood or marriage, to some branch of the Siggins family.
The records herein contained will be found useful in
establishing the American origin of many Pennsylvania
families, as the information given is substantiated by the
appended list of reference works consulted. The most
trustworthy proof of the relationship of our emigrant an-
cestress, Sarah Hood Siggins to Admiral Samuel Hood is
contained in letters left by Judge John Siggins, of Tidioute,
Pennsylvania, and Francis Siggins Baird, a daughter of Sa-
rah Hood, elsewhere published in the present work.
Mrs. E. Harriet Howe, born in 1844, distinctly remem-
bers hearing her uncle Isaac Siggins tell of the same inci-
dents related in John Siggins' letter. John B. White of
Kansas City, born in 1847, often heard Henry Kinnear tell
the same story of Sarah Hood's relationship to Admiral
Hood. Mrs. Sarah Hood Siggins lived for a number of
years before her death, in the home of her son Alexander
Siggins who had married Henry Kinnear's sister, Margaret.
The Kinnear and Siggins families owned adjoining farms in
Brokenstraw Township, Pennsylvania.
John Siggins, born in 1839, says, "When I was a boy
Aunt Mary Siggins (born in 1805) a maiden sister of my
father, talked a great deal to me about her relatives across
X PREFACE
the water. She said that her grandmother (Sarah Hood,
wife of John Siggins) claimed that Admiral Samuel Hood,
who was born Dec. 12, 1724, and died at Bath England, Jan.
27, 1816, was her brother and he told her that in his
early life as a sailor he at one time cut with his knife
in a door of the barn or out-building an exact cut of the ship
that he had sailed on, showing the ship under full sail, and
that he would tell his folks at home of the West Indies and
other wonderful lands he had visited. When returning from
these trips he always brought gifts to the family from the
different countries he had visited.
Another convincing proof of Sarah Hood's close rela-
tionship to Admiral Hood's family is the fact of her giving
several of her children the same names that appear in every
generation of this branch of the Hood family and had not
until this time been found in the Siggins' family. Another
significant fact bearing on this relationship is that when
John Siggins started to America with several of his neigh-
bors and relatives, his objective point was to the same lo-
cality in Pennsylvania where Richard Hoskins' family
owned a large tract of land, part of which he willed to his
daughter Mary who married Reverend Samuel Hood. A
portion of this property evidently reverted to her daugh-
ter, Sarah, and was evidently the primary cause of the emi-
gration of John and Sarah Hood Siggins to America.
In 1895 the representatives of several branches of the
Siggins family held a Reunion at Irvineton. The leading
spirits in this movement were John Siggins of Tidioute,
Sabina Siggins Parker, of Jamestov/n, and Benjamin B. Sig-
gins of Youngsville, Pa. Three hundred of the clan attend-
ed. They spent the day in exchanging reminiscences of
"Auld Lang Syne" and listening to an interesting pro-
gramme. Miss Justina Siggins of Hickory, gave a most ex-
cellent sketch of the family from the time of their landing
in America down to the present day.
The second reunion was held in Irvineton in 1896;
John W. Siggins was secretary and general manager. The
PREFACE XI
third was held in 1897 in Youngsville, Pa., at which time
Mrs. 0. F. Chase of Jamestown, read an interesting and
humorous paper describing some of the leading character-
istics of the Siggins' clan. She said, "None of them have
accumulated vast fortunes, but as a whole, they are rich in
kindness and feelings of good fellowship for their neigh-
bors and friends, and fair in their dealings. There is a re-
freshing strain of wit and humor to be found in most of
those of the Siggins' blood which makes them entertaining
conversationalists. As to the professions, they are all rep-
resented in our family. Right here, excuse a little moral-
izing 'to point a moral to adorn my tale', — may the lawyers
never stir up strife and always read the law along the lines
of justice; may the doctors be faithful to their trust and
their bills not longer than the lives of their patients ; as to
the ministers, may they preach less of creed and more of the
Brotherhood of Christ and all deal fairly with their fellow
Eight of these gatherings were held and much good re-
sulted therefrom, chief of which was the historical matter
gleaned from those thus brought together, — old letters
were brought to light; family records read, compared and
corrected ; old legends revived and a new interest fostered
in family history and genealogy, — all of which has been
carefully searched and every important item, event and
date recorded in the present work. The meetings were held
in June to commemorate the season of the year in which
the ancestors of the family made their journey across the
Atlantic in their search for a new abiding place.
I have tried to avoid the traditional, confining my state-
ments to the facts as they were given to me by the differ-
ent members of the family to whom I am indebted for their
hearty cooperation. Where collateral names appear, I have
digressed and given something of the history of that fam-
ily prior to their marriage into the Siggins Family. In do-
ing this, I had two objects in mind, — the benefit of such rec-
ords to future generations in that particular line ; then as a
reference work on genealogy, its value would be greatly in-
xii PREFACE
creased by the introduction of this collateral data. It is
to be greatly regretted that we were not able to give a more
definite report of the family prior to the time of their emi-
gration to America. I have been at considerable expense to
have a search made of the public records in the counties of
Ireland where our ancestors were known to have resided.
The results are herewith appended.
The names of those who have been especially helpful are :
John Barber White, Kansas City, Missouri.
Mrs. E. Harriet Howe, Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Laura E. Messerly, Warren, Pannsylvania.
Judge John Siggins, Tidioute, Pa.
Mrs. Charles E. Rose, Cleveland Ohio.
1500-1918
HOOD
HOOD COAT OF ARMS.
HOOD COAT OF ARMS
CREATION— Baronet, 19 May, 1778. Baron in the Peerage
of Ireland 2 Sept., 1782. Baron, 27 March, 1795, and
Viscount, 1 June 1796; both in the Peerage of Great
Britain.
ARMS — Az., a fret, arg., on a chief, or. three crescents, sa.
for Hood.
CREST — A Cornish chough, ppr., in front of an anchor, in
bend, sinister, or.
SUPPORTERS — Dexter, a merman, in his exterior hand a
trident; sinister, a mermaid, in her exterior hand a
mirror, all ppr.
MOTTO— Ventis secundis.
THE ABOVE COAT OF ARMS WAS GRANTED TO
THE FOLLOWING:
The Viscount Hood (Sir Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood),
of Whitley, Co. Warwick;
Baron Hood, of Catherington, Hants, in Great Britain ;
Baron Hood, of Catherington, in Ireland, and Baronet of
England, late major Grenadier Guards; served in
Ashanti 1895-6, and in S. Africa 1900-2; b. 13 Nov.,
1868; s. his father as 5th Viscount, 1907.
(Burke's Peerage.)
SlGGINS AND
EARLY DAYS.
Most of the families herein spoken of claim Scotch-Irish
origin. The title originated about the time of James II of
England when some of the Irish Earls conspired against
the Government and became outlaws. Their lands consist-
ing of thousands of acres were seized by the Crown and of-
fered to Scotch peasants if they would go to Ireland and re-
side on these lands permanently. A second similar insur-
rection caused another large forfeiture and resulted in the
seizure of nearly six counties in the province of Ulster. The
King had primarily in mind by this procedure the voting
out of the Latin Irish who were Catholics and hostile to his
Government and replacing them with loyal subjects. Being
protected by the Government and naturally frugal and in-
dustrious they prospered and soon gained the ascendency
over their less thrifty neighbors and have maintained it up
to the present time for they never intermarried with the
native Irish but remained Saxon in blood and Protestant in
religion.
Scotch Irish is purely an American term applying to these
Protestant emigrants whose ancestors had come over from
Scotland as above described and made their home in Ire-
land and then moved by a desire to better their condition,
emigrated to the New World. We find their descendants in
every state in the Union. Many of them came just prior
to the breaking out of the Revolution and they almost to a
man espoused the cause of the Colonists. Many of them
were military leaders and prominent law-makers during
and after that long struggle for human rights. They have
furnished Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, Judges and
patriots in many and various walks of life.
With such a heritage as theirs it might be expected that
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the Youngs, Simpsons, Bairds and Siggins emigrants were
no laggards in the business of home making and citizen
building. (The first to invade the lonely forests and prepare
the way for civilization were in many instances the mission-
aries, sent out by different religious societies.)
The first of the Siggins family to come to America for
permanent settlement was John, son of William Siggins
who lived in Drumcliffe Parish County, Sligo, Ireland, on
land probably granted him by the Crown for military serv-
ices. His son, John, had the title of esquire, and an income
of two hundred pounds a year.
Through the solicitation of the Holland Land Company,
a number of the family went to America. On the journey,
Alexander, son of John and Sarah Hood, was born, — this
was in 1793.
The family first settled near Philadelphia and later went
to Center County, Pennsylvania.
John had married Sarah Hood in Ireland. She was the
sister of Admiral Hood. Among the choice possessions of
Sarah Hood Siggins was a little book called "History of the
Bible" written in story form, from which she read in the
long evenings to her small children. 3>ie carried it with her
carefully guarded on the journey to America. Her children
and grandchildren never tired of listening to the sacred
stories. When she no longer had need of it, her gr-daughter
Mary became its custodian and read its stories to the chil-
dren of the household. It is now in the possession of Har-
riet Howe of Kansas City, Missouri, a great grand daughter
of Sarah Hood. It bears no date but must have been one of
the very first books in which wood engravings were used.
Sarah Hood Siggins died in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, in
1833, aged 85 years.
Some of the family went from Center County, Pa., to
Stewart's Run. Here lived the Siggins, Dawsons, Allenders,
Kinnears and Middletons. They were all Methodists and
held meetings from house to house, — George Siggins being
the class leader.
8 SlGGINS AND
William, the father of George, and wife Mary, lived and
died in the parish of Drumcliffe, Ireland, where his fore-
fathers had dwelt before him. He was brought up in the
Church of England but was most friendly with the Method-
ists and often went to hear John Wesley preach.
Frances (Siggins) Baird says of her grandfather, William
Siggins ; "He was a farmer in Drumcliffe where his ances-
tors had lived for many years; he was much esteemed by
the nobility of the place; was a yeoman and always fought
for his King and country and was brought up in the Church
of England. He was a very pious man and would often
'pray loud in secret' ". He was very friendly to the Method-
ists and frequently entertained them and often went to
hear John Wesley preach.
Through John Siggins of Bena, Australia, we learn that
the crest of the family in Scotland was a sheaf of wheat, —
this would accord with the traditions of the family that
they were farmers.
Among the pious laymen who did so much for early
Methodism, George Siggins was one of the foremost ; he at-
tended the Quarterly meetings and always assisted at the
services.
His mother, Sarah Hood Siggins was a devout follower
of John Wesley. She often went to hear him preach, taking
her children with her. She was tall and handsome, with
dark sparkling eyes — was an adept at story telling ; of even
temper and gentle manners. She spent the last days of her
life at the home of her son Alexander in Youngsville.
John, the second son of John and Sarah H. Siggins left
home when about twenty-five years old for a trip down the
Alleghany River, fell a victim to yellow fever and died and
was buried at Letart Island in the Ohio River.
Their eldest daughter, Frances, married Benjamin Baird
of Center Co. Their home was in Lock Haven, Pa. She
died at the home of her daughter Mary, in Lock Haven,
aged three score and ten years. She was a woman of ster-
JOHN WESLEY.
Other Families 9
ling qualities of mind and heart and greatly beloved by all
who knew her.
George Siggins came to the section of the Alleghany Val-
ley now known as Hickory, in 1818. Here he built a two
story log house and began clearing his farm. Later he
built a frame addition which is still standing but moved to
another foundation. Many of his methods of farming and
irrigation were far in advance of his times. A church and
school house were built also of logs with the windows of
oiled paper and slab benches for seats. There were no
stores nearer than Erie or Pittsburg and from these towns
supplies were brought in once or twice a year, — sometimes
by boat but oftener by wagon load.
The Indian villages where Zeisberger established his first
missions were situated in the heart of the present rich oil
fields. The presence of oil in this region was known to the
Indians long before its discovery by the white settlers. It
was gathered by them in various crude ways and put to
many household and medicinal uses.
Later, when the settlers found it could be procured in
large quantities shipped to all parts of the world, it ushered
in a new era of commercial activity and became the source
of immense revenue.
It is a well established fact that the Christian world to-
day owes much to Peter Bohler, the Moravian missionary
whose spiritual exhortations led to John Wesley's conver-
sion in 1738. His, Wesley's, open air sermons soon started a
wave of spiritual awakening which had a wonderful influ-
ence on the people of England and Ireland and no doubt
hastened the tide of emigration to the American shores,
which set in toward the end of the eighteenth century.
And it was another Moravian disciple, David Zeisberger,
who dedicated his life to the reclaiming of the Aborigenes
and spent his life in missionary work in the wilderness of
Western Pennsylvania. His labors began about 1767 when
he established a camp at the mouth of Tionesta Creek, ac-
companied by two Delaware Indians, Anthony and
10 SlGGINS AND
Papunhank. He was, so far as history shows, the first
white man to visit the upper Allegheny country. The char-
acter of his work, and its influence for good over the wild
tribes of Indians among whom he labored, was soon felt.
He acted as mediator between them and the early white set-
tlers.
John Penn, grandson of William Penn, governor of Penn-
sylvania, recognized the importance of the work of the Mor-
avians among the Indians. Governor Hamilton, also Dr.
Benjamin Franklin, Postmaster General of the British Col-
onies and member of the Colonial Assembly, as well as Jo-
seph Galloway, an eminent lawyer and William Logan, a
member of the Governor's Council, all expressed faith in
Penn's idea of dealing with the Indians as carried out by
Zeisberger. He was recognized as a valuable factor in
reconciling and adjusting the differences that arose from
time to time between the Indians and the white settlers.
The Pennsylvania Historical Commission in cooperation
with the Allegewe D A R Society has erected a huge bould-
er in the Court House Square at Goudersport to the mem-
ory of Daniel Zeisberger, the well beloved Moravian Mis-
sionary and there hangs in the Forest County Commis-
sioner's office a picture of Zeisberger preaching to the In-
dians. William Penn bought his lands from the Indians
which was an unaccustomed procedure; he tried to please
rather than to force them and in so doing, won their confi-
dence. In the Council meetings he called them brothers and
they called him Big Brother. The Iroquois controlled all
of what is now Pennsylvania and with them Penn had to
deal. Later, when the Delawares came from farther west
and tried to settle in Eastern Pennsylvania, Penn helped
keep peace between the two tribes. The Delawares trust-
ed him implicitly and permitted him to make his settlements
unmolested. They granted him large tracts of land. All
went well until the Walking Purchase, whereby the In-
dians lost much valuable land. This was the beginning of
the Indian troubles in Pennsylvania.
In November 1682 the Great Treaty between Penn and
Other Families 11
the Indians of Western Pennsylvania was signed under an
elm tree which has since been known as the "Treaty Tree"
at which at least three tribes of Indians were present, the
Delawares, the Shawnees and the Mingos. This tree was
carefully preserved and guarded with almost superstitious
care. It stood until blown down by a storm in 1810 and
was discovered to be nearly three hundred years old. Pre-
vious to this treaty, Penn considered that he had no right
to any of these lands, holding that the Indians were the
rightful possessors.
In his early purchases it was provided that the tract
"shall extend back from a given point as far as a man can
walk in three days." Penn himself often going with the
contracting parties to see that no advantage was taken of
the owners of the land.
A part of the purchase being walked out in a day and a
half, Penn decided that what they had covered would in-
clude land enough to meet their present needs. The re-
mainder to be walked out when it was needed. They had
walked only about thirty miles, but later when the purchase
was concluded, some time in the year 1733, the walkers
contrived to make it appear that they had gone nearly three
times the distance covered by Penn and his men in the same
given time, thereby gaining possession, by unfair methods,
of a large tract of land and giving to the Indians just cause
for the lack of confidence which they began to feel in the
settlers that were pouring into their territory.
A little later, during the French supremacy, trading posts
were established at Niagara, Venango (now Franklin), Le
Boeuf (now Waterford) and other posts in northwestern
Pennsylvania, where all kinds of trinkets and ammunition
were exchanged with the Indians for valuable furs, which
were shipped to Europe and sold at an immense profit. The
English and French were contending for supremacy in this
region, — secret instructions were given by each to their
emissaries to make every effort to strengthen their own
power in these colonies.
12 SlGGINS AND
Going back nearly two centuries the valley around Tidi-
oute would present in many respects much the same ap-
pearance as it does to-day, — but the forests which crept
down to the very water's edge at that time have disap-
peared and given place to unsightly oil derricks. The
squalid log cabins and bark wigwams of the Indians have
been replaced by homes and factories; and the fields that
were cultivated by the Indians are now growing corn and
other grains for the white man's consumption. On the
river bank birch bark canoes were upturned ready for the
use of the redman. Most of the cabins were built entire-
ly of bark, held together by willow withes fastened to a
rudely constructed log frame, a small hole being left in the
roof whence the smoke escaped, — the Indians knowing
nothing about the construction or use of chimneys.
Every village had what was culled a Council House where
the feasts and ceremonies were held. During the summer,
the fires were built outside of the cabins; for safety, they
were usually surrounded by a ring of stones. These rings
are often found by farmers when they are ploughing their
fields.
It was thus that George Siggins discovered that the In-
dians had at one time resided on Cullen's Flats. Jackson
Siggins has made a valuable collection of Indian Relics
consisting of arrow heads, mortars in which they ground
their corn, necklaces, earrings, stone knives, tips of spears,
Indian pipes and other quaintly fashioned tokens of the ex-
istence of a tribe of the Delaware Indians in the vicinity of
the present town of Tidioute.
In the interests of the French came in 1749 de Celeron
with a large party and followed the southern shores of
Lakes Ontario and Erie to a point opposite Lake Chautau-
qua where they made portage over the dividing bridge and
thence down the Lake and on down the Conewango to War-
ren where they buried a leaden plate setting forth a re-
newal of the French possessions treaty on the banks of the
Ohio and Kanaougon (Allegheny) rivers. A plate bearing
the arms of France was then affixed to a nearby tree. There
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was another plate buried near Franklin and four others
on their journey to Fort Frontenac on Lake Ontario.
The following is a copy of the inscription which appeared
on one of these plates that was originally written in French :
In the year 1749 of the reign of Louis XV, King of France,
we were Commander of a detachment sent by Monsieur le
(mis) de la Calissoniere, General Commandant of New
France, to re-establish order in a few villages (uncivilized)
of these cantons. We buried this plaque (or slab) at the
entrance of the River Chinodahichetha (?) 18 of August
near the Ohio river, beautiful river, as a monument of the
renewal of possession that we had taken of said Ohio river
and of all those that empty into it, and of all the land on the
two banks to the source of the aforesaid rivers, such as be-
long to the present and preceding kings of France and
which they have maintained by force of arms or by treaties,
especially those of Ryswick, Dordrecht and Aix-la-Chapelle.
It was well for these early settlers that Zeisberger had
preceded chem into this region and prepared the way for the
great number of emigrants that nocked to this fertile val-
ley. As a whole they were generous and hospitable and
ever ready to help the latest comer to hew the logs and erect
a shelter for his family. At first these huts were crude
and bare of any furnishings except the necessities but the
privations were bravely borne and in course of time the
serious business of making for themselves a permanent
abiding place was successfully carried out.
A short time previous to their coming to this valley the
Holland Land Company had appropriated lands north and
west of the Allegheny River previously known as Al-
legheny Co. Eight counties including Warren were formed
from this tract by act of the legislature. This included the
present Erie, Crawford and Venango counties with the Coun-
ty Seat at Meadville. One of the commissioners appoint-
ed by the Governor to lay out the town in Warren was John
McKinney, a young and vigorous adventurer fresh from
the Emerald Isle. He married Susan Arthur in 1842 and
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settled on a farm within the lines of the present village of
Youngsville where he lived to a good old age.
Robert Andrews, Mathew Young, Hugh Wilson, Joseph
Gray and Darius and Joseph Mead were among the early
settlers of the Broken Straw valley — also Judge William
Siggins who served in the war of 1812, was constable, Jus-
tice of the Peace and Associate Judge. Later came the
Kinnears, Goodwins, Littlefields and others. One of the
moving spirits of the new settlement was Henry P. Kinnear
who served the public in many capacities. His sister Mar-
garet married Alexander Siggins, one of the substantial men
of the town and a most enthusiastic supporter of the doc-
trines of the Methodist Church. His word was law in all
matters pertaining to Church discipline. Some of the
younger members thinking to add to the musical entertain-
ment of the congregation, brought a big bass viol into the
choir which occupied a place in the gallery directly opposite
the pulpit. All went well until Grandfather Siggins ap-
peared. He marched straight to the pulpit which was ele-
vated several feet above the floor, mounted the stairs and
pointing his finger at the instrument exclaimed in tones
not easily misunderstood "Take that ungodly fiddle out of
this Church and keep it out". Needless to say it was re-
moved.
Warren County was named for General Joseph Warren, a
distinguished and gallant soldier who lost his life at Bunker
Hill while boldly defending his country's rights. His Grand-
father was Peter Warren and his son Joseph was the father
of General Joseph who was born at Roxbury, Mass., in 1741.
The Daughters of the Revolution have erected a monument
to General Warren in the Public Square in Warren, Penn.
This section of the County owes much to the foresight and
labors of General William Irvine, one of the early settlers of
the valley. He obtained a warrant for a large tract of land
on the banks of the Allegheny River. His son Callender
Irvine perfected title to the same as required by law by
actually living on and improving the lands. Much of the
original tract is still owned by the descendants of old Gen-
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eral Irvine. The splendid forests of Pine and Hemlock
which covered the hills were one of the chief attractions
which brought settlers and speculators to this valley. Small
mills were erected and their products carried by water to
distant markets, — some going as far away as New Orleans
and this started an enterprise which laid the foundation of
much of the wealth of the population of Warren County.
WARREN BOROUGH.
Warren Borough was laid out by General William Irvine
and Andrew Ellicott about 1795 and incorporated April
April 3, 1882. Stephen Gilson, son of Gideon, was the first
white child born in the town. Another of the first settlers
was David Jackson, a native of Connecticut, but he came
from Ithaca, N. Y., to this place in 1797 and settled on what
was later known as the Wetmore Farm; he came by way
of Buffalo and Erie to Waterford and thence by canoe down
French Creek to the Allegheny River. He built the first
frame house in the town. Here he kept an Inn for a num-
ber of years.
Archibald Tanner erected a brick block on this same lot
in 1849-50. In 1800 Jackson completed one of the first saw
mills in the county, from which the first raft of pine tim-
ber was floated down the Allegheny River and safely land-
ed at Pittsburgh between the years 1799 and 1801. It
contained about thirty thousand feet of lumber and was
guided by sitting-poles instead of oars. The saw mill built
by the Meads on the Brokenstraw was erected about the
same time and was thought by some of the old settlers to
take precedence of the Jackson mill. David Jackson died
June 20, 1830 ; his children were Daniel, Rachel, David, Jr.,
Ethan Ebenezer and Sylvia.
John King another early settler, married Betsy, daughter
of John Gilson, Sr., in 1811. She died in 1873. Their chil-
dren were J. born 1812; George W. ; Rufus P.; Mrs. Har-
mon of Warren ; J. E. King, M. D. of Buffalo ; Mrs. Evelyn
Mead (wife of John Mead of Youngs ville) who later mar-
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ried Thomas W. Jackson — their sons were John A., Byron
J., Gilson A., and a daughter Sarah who married Mr. Davis ;
Mrs. Betsy Hunter and Mrs. Malvina Cowan of Warren.
John King served as County Treasurer in 1827-28. Rufus
P. King filled the same office 1843-47 and also served as
Associate Judge of Warren County.
George W. Fenton, father of Hon. Reuben E. Fenton,
taught the first school in a room of Daniel Jackson's house.
He married Elsey Owen of Carroll, a niece of John King's
wife.
Thomas Beaty of Beaver County, was another of the sub-
stantial pioneer farmers of Western Pennsylvania who be-
came one of the best of patriotic citizens. He tilled the soil
and taught habits of frugality and industry to his chil-
dren. When the call came for troops in 1812, he offered his
services and was stationed with the Penna. troops at Fort
Erie.
David, one of his fourteen children, was born in Beaver
County in 1811. He was also a farmer, by industry and
frugality he accumulated considerable property in Forest
and Warren Counties. He engaged in the lumber business
and later when oil was discovered in Warren County, he
began operations in that industry. He made his home in
Warren where his two sons also lived. The older 0. W.
Beaty became a partner of his father in the oil business;
and from 1889 until the time of his death, he served as Vice
President of the Warren Savings Bank.
Northwestern Pennsylvania including Armstrong, Butler,
Beaver Lawrence, Mercer, Crawford, Warren, Forest, Ve-
nango, Clarion, Jefferson, McKean, Elk, Cameron, Potter and
Tioga Counties, was acquired by treaty between the State
and the Indians, — the Six Nations confirmed this treaty at
Ft. Stanwix, Oct. 23, 1758, the great waterways furnishing
the only means of entering or traversing this great wilder-
ness territory. Later the white men learned the Indian
trails and paths ; gradually they began to use them in their
journeys to and from the different settlements, especially
in the mountain districts; — later they were the ones used
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for military purposes and are now the acknowledged nation-
al highways. The most noted of these was the old Catawba
or Cherokee trail, leading from the Carolinas through Vir-
ginia and Western Pennsylvania to Canada. This was in-
tersected by the "Warrior" Trail, which started in Ken-
tucky and joined the Cherokee path in Fayette Co.
The French built the first forts which afterwards were
taken by the English and later became the sites of the
present towns and villages ; Franklin occupies one of these
— it was first known as the Village of the Wolf. In 1887
the United States Troops built Fort Franklin on this site
and named it for Benjamin Franklin. The town of Frank-
lin situated at the confluence of the French Creek and the
Allegheny River, was laid out in 1795 by William Irvine
and Andrew Ellicott. The Indian name for the town was
Weningo. Fort Le Bouf was built about 1754. Allegheny
County at first embraced about all of the Western part of the
state, and was occupied successively by the French, English
and Americans. The name comes from the Allegewe tribe
of Indians that occupied this section of the county prior to
the coming of the Iroquois or Six Nations the "Romans of
America".
CORNPLANTER
John O'Bail alias Cornplanter was a distinguished chief
of the Seneca Tribe of Indians, one of the powerful "Six
Nations." He was a half breed who fought valiantly with
the French and later with the British. After the defeat
and surrender of Cornwallis he accepted the situation phil-
osophically and made friends with the Colonists and hero-
ically maintained his allegiance thereto during the Jre-
mainder of his life, rendering valuable assistance during
the Indian Wars of 1790-94. He gave valuable aid by pro-
tecting the western frontiers. For these and other ser-
vices he was given large tracts of land — he selected for
himself a farm about fourteen miles north of Warren,
Pennsylvania, where he lived until March 17th, 1836, when
he died aged upwards of a hundred years. The Pennsyl-
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vania Legislature passed an act by which a monument was
erected to his memory in grateful recognition of his long
and faithful services to the state of his adoption.
Many interesting stories are told of Cornplanter. Mrs.
Harriett Howe well remembers hearing her uncle, Isaac
Siggins, relate many reminiscences of this old Indian war-
rior; he frequently spoke of his great interest in the wel-
fare of his Tribal Brothers, the Senecas. He was a strong
advocate of Temperance and bitterly opposed the sale of
"Fire Water" to the Indians. In order to lay this matter
before the Governor and ask his co-operation in protecting
them against this evil, he journeyed all the way on foot
from his home on the Allegheny just below Hickory Town
to the State Capital and back again. Perhaps if the Gov-
ernor had taken the advice of this wise old chief, the His-
tory of Pennsylvania from that time on might have been
quite different reading from the story as it stands recorded
to-day. Certain it is that the settlers would have fared
better and been far safer if they had heeded the advice of
men like Cornplanter and Penn.
Six miles below Franklin, Pennsylvania, on the East side
of the Allegheny River stands the "Indian God Rock" keep-
ing guard over the secrets of the Red man, as enacted there
when they were the sole possessors of the soil and mon-
archs of all they beheld. It stands near the shore and is
fully twenty feet in length ; its upper end rests on the bank
but its huge bulk stands out in bold relief; its upper side
is completely covered with Indian hieroglyphics and sym-
bols, such as turtles, snakes and other animals, arrows,
representations of the sun, etc., etc. It was the supersti-
tious belief of the early Indian inhabitants that any one
who could walk its length unaided would live a hundred
years. Cornplanter it was said performed this feat although
it would seem impossible of accomplishment so nearly per-
pendicular does it stand ; for reward he claimed his full
quota of years which nature generously granted with some
eight or ten to spare.
The progress of the twentieth century is playing havoc
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with the old land marks of Warren County. One of these,
the Cornplanter Hotel, was built by Dr. William A. Irvine
on the flat near the town of Irvineton. It was built of
native slate stone ; was massive in appearance and far sur-
passed the other buildings of the neighborhood. It is rap-
idly becoming demolished and will soon exist only in mem-
ory. It stood on the East side of the road near the River
and was built about 1843. A man by the name of Foreman
kept the hotel for many years.
Few names are more distinguished in the frontier his-
tory of Pennsylvania than that of Cornplanter. His Indian
name was Ga-nio-di-euh, or Handsome Lake. He was born
at Conewangus on the Genessee River: being a half breed,
the son of a white man, named John O'Bail, a trader from
the Mohawk Valley. In 1779 in one of the Indian raids in
which Cornplanter participated, one of the prisoners taken
chanced to be his father. He said to him, "I am your son ;
you are my father — you are my prisoner and subject to the
customs of Indian warfare but your life shall be spared if
you choose to follow the fortunes of your son. I will cher-
ish and protect thee, but if you wish to return to your white
friends, I will send a party of my trusted young men to
conduct you hence." O'Bail preferred to return and was
taken safely back to Albany.
Notwithstanding his bitter hostility while the war con-
tinued, once the hatchet was buried, he at once became the
friend and ally of the Colonists and through his influence
with the Indians brought about amicable settlement of
many of their differences. He entertained the highest re-
spect for Washington, "the Great Counsellor of the Thirteen
Fires" and often visited him during his presidency on busi-
ness for his tribe.
His speeches on these occasions exhibit both his talent
in composition and his adroitness in diplomacy. Washing-
ton fully reciprocated his respect and friendship. They
had fought against each other on the disastrous day of
Braddock's field. Both were then young men. More than
40 years afterwards, when Washington was about retiring
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from the presidency, Cornplanter made a special visit to
Philadelphia to take an affectionate leave of the great bene-
factor of the white man and the red.
After peace was permanently established between the
Indians and the United States, Cornplanter retired from
public life and devoted his labors to his own people. He
deplored the evils of intemperance and exerted himself to
suppress it. The benevolent efforts of missionaries among
his tribe always received his encouragement, and at one
time his own heart seemed to be softened by the words of
truth. Yet he preserved in his later years, many of the
peculiar notions of the Indian faith.
In the war of 1812-14, when the Senecas took up the
hatchet in alliance with the United States, Cornplanter ap-
pears to have taken no active part; but his son, Major
Henry O'Bail, and his intimate neighbor, Halftown, were
conspicuous in several engagements on the Niagara fron-
tier.
Rev. Timothy Allen, then president of Allegheny college,
who visited Cornplanter in 1816, thus describes the chief
and his village:
"Jennesedaga, Cornplanter's village, is on a handsome
piece of bottom land and comprises about a dozen buildings.
It was grateful to notice the agricultural habits of the
place, and the numerous enclosures of buckwheat, corn and
oats. We also saw a number of oxen, cows and horses and
many logs designed for the saw mill and Pittsburg market.
Last year, 1815, the Western Missionary society established
a school in the village under Mr. Samuel Oldham. Corn-
planter, as soon as apprised of our arrival, came over to
see us and took charge of our horses. Though having
many around him to obey his commands, yet, in the ancient
patriarchal style, he chose to serve us himself, and actually
went into the field, cut the oats and fed our beasts. He
appears to be about 68 years of age and 5 feet 10 inches in
height. His countenance is strongly marked with intelli-
gence and reflection. Contrary to the aboriginal custom,
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his chin is covered with a beard three or four inches in
length. His house is of princely dimensions, compared
with most Indian huts and has a piazza in front. He is
owner of 1,300 acres of excellent land, 600 of which encircle
the ground plot of his little town. He receives an annual
stipend from the United States of $250. Cornplanter's
brother, lately deceased, called the prophet, was known by
the high-sounding name of Goskukewanna Konnedin, or
Large Beautiful Lake. Kinzuquade, the name of another
chief, signified the place of many fishes, hence probably the
name of Kinzua."
In 1821-22, the commissioners of Warren county as-
sumed the right to tax the private property of Cornplanter
and proceeded to enforce its collection. The old chief re-
sisted it, conceiving it not only unlawful, but a personal
indignity. The sheriff again appeared with a small po'sse
of armed men. Cornplanter took the deputation to a room
around which were ranged about 100 rifles, and with the
sententious brevity of an Indian, intimated that for each
rifle a warrior would appear at his call. The sheriff and
his men speedily withdrew, determined, however, to call
out the militia. Several prudent citizens, fearing a san-
guinary collision, sent for the old chief, in a friendly way,
to come to Warren and compromise the matter. He came
and after some persuasion, gave his note for the tax,
amounting to $43.79. He addressed, however, a remon-
strance to the governor of Pennsylvania, soliciting a return
of his money, and an exemption from such demands against
land that the State itself had given him. The Legislature
annulled the tax and sent two commissioners to explain the
affair to him. He met them at the court house in Warren,
on which occasion he delivered the following speech, emi-
nently characteristic of him and his race :
"Brothers — Yesterday was appointed for us all to meet
here. The talk which the governor sent us pleased us very
much. I think that the Great Spirit is very much pleased
that the white people have been induced so to assist the
Indians as they have done, and that he is pleased also to
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see great men of this State and of the United States so
friendly to us. We are much pleased with what has been
done.
"The Great Spirit first made the world, and next the fly-
ing animals, and found all things good and prosperous. He
is immortal and everlasting. After finishing the flying ani-
mals, he came down on earth and there stood. Then he
made different kinds of trees, and weeds of all sorts and
people of every kind. He made the spring and other sea-
sons, and the weather suitable for planting. These he did
make. But stills to make whisky to be given to the Indians,
he did not make. The Great Spirit bids me tell the white
people not to give Indians this kind of liquor. When the
Great Spirit had made the earth and its animals, he went
into the great lakes, where he breathed as easily as any-
where else, and then made all the different kinds of fish.
The Great Spirit looked back on all that he had made. The
different kinds he made to be separate and not to mix with
and disturb the other. But the white people have broken
his command by mixing their color with the Indians. The
Indians have done better by not doing so. The Great
Spirit wishes that all fighting and wars should cease.
"I have now to thank the Governor for what he "has done.
I have informed him what the Great Spirit has ordered
me to cease from and I wish the Governor to inform others
of what I have communicated. This is all I have at pres-
ent to say."
Cornplanter's gr. son is evidently following in the foot-
steps of his illustrious gr. father as the following story
clipped from a recent paper will show:
"A few years ago, Cornplanter, one of the Seneca chiefs,
toured Germany. Before he went he said he hoped to see
the kaiser and preach the Indian religion to him. He came
back disappointed in not being able to talk to the kaiser, but
more than this he came back to his family with a tale that
Germany was a country of warriors getting ready to fight
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somebody. A month ago a letter from the reservation told
that Jesse Cornplanter, son of this chief, had enlisted in
the United States army and was going over to Germany with
another sort of message for the kaiser. Young Cornplanter
will find himself in good company and with a couple of
million men ready to carry a pretty potent message over
the top to Berlin."
MEAD FAMILY.
"In 1793 Darius Mead, with his sons David, John, Dar-
ius, and Joseph and two daughters emigrated from the
Susquehannah River in what is now known as Lycoming
county, to the tract of land now embracing Meadville, Pa.,
from whom it took its name. By reason of the hostile
demonstrations of the Indians they removed to Franklin,
where there was a fort and United States garrison. The
following spring while the father was ploughing in a field
in the vicinity, a party of Indians came suddenly upon him,
and seized and bound him hand and foot. They took him
twenty miles into the woods westerly from Franklin, where
they stopped to encamp for the night. While the Indians
were cutting wood for their camp fire Mead succeeded in
extricating one of his hands. As one of the Indians came
up with an armful of wood, and was bending over in the
act of kindling the fire, Mead stepped up and drawing a
large hunting knife from the Indian's belt, plunged it into
his heart. The other two came up at that moment, and a
desperate encounter at once commenced. It is supposed
Mead succeeded in mortally wounding one of his antago-
nists, but he was finally overpowered and brutally mur-
dered, and cut to pieces with a tomahawk. After the sub-
sidence of the Indian troubles, David and John Mead re-
turned to Meadville. In the spring 1799 Joseph and Darius
removed to Warren county with their families, the former
settling on the Big Brokenstraw, where Meads mill now
stands, about a mile west of Youngsville. Darius located on
the farm more recently owned and occupied by Captain
James Bonner. In a year or two, however he joined his
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brother, and with him built a grist mill and two saw mills.
This was the first grist mill in Warren county, there being
at that time no mill within a radius of thirty miles. To
the mill at Union and that belonging to the Holland Land
Company at Titusville, many grists were borne from this
county on the backs of their owners or of the patient oxen
guided through the trackless forests only by Indian Trails.
Meads Mill, it has been said, was the Mecca to which the
population of a large district made their regular pilgrim-
ages for supplies. It is said in dry times some grists came
forty miles. The inhabitants of Columbus brought their
grist to this mill in canoes. Darius Mead was an acting
justice for several years, and was hospitable and sociable
in his habits. Darius Mead died in 1813, and was buried
in the cemetery on the original John Andrews farm. In
1813 Joseph removed to a farm on the Allegheny River,
three miles below Warren including the island which still
bears his name, and passed the remainder of his life there,
dying March, 1864. His wife Hannah, died on the 25th of
February, 1856 at the age of seventy-seven years and four
months. They were parents of fourteen children, eleven
of whom were living at the time of their mother's death.
Many of the descendants of these hardy brothers are now
living in Brokenstraw township, and are worthy descend-
ants of their brave ancestors. After the death of Darius
Mead the mills came into the hands of his nephew John
Mead, who had labored in them since 1807. John Mead,
Jr. was born near Sunbury, Pa., on the 28th of August,
1786. While he was yet a mere child his father John, Sr.,
removed to the valley of French Creek at Meadville as be-
fore stated. In the spring of 1807 John, Jr. came to the
valley of Brokenstraw in company with his brother Wil-
liam to labor in the mills of his uncles, Joseph and Darius.
He married Sallie Hoffman on the 12th of October, 1809,
and built his house on a piece of land which his father-in-
law gave him. In 1814 he and John Garner bought the
Matthew Young tract of 400 acres for $2,500 dollars— the
tract containing nearly all the land now within the limits
of the borough of Youngsville. He rebuilt the Mead mills
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several times. He died on the 4th of November, 1870. Be-
fore his death his son Darius operated the mills for some
time and finally sold the saw mill to Madison Alger and
the grist mill to H. T. Marshall. In connection with this
mill it is well to mention ingenious John Gregg, who came
in the early part of this century and settled about two
miles north of Youngsville. He ground the corn for the
Mead mill and also preached the gospel according to the
Methodist persuasion, made hickory splint cabels for the
lumbermen at three dollars apiece, and educated two sons
for the ministry.
His brother Samuel Gregg, a bachelor, hired out to Judge
Siggins, and cleared for him a place now occupied by his
son, William F. Siggins."
From History of Warren County, Pa.
by J. S. Schenck.
The following inscription is to be found on a monument
erected in the town of Warren, Pennsylvania:
"In honor of the soldiers and sailors of the Revolu-
tionary War who are buried in Warren Co., Pa.
David Mead, Ensign
Darius Mead
Robert Mead."
On reverse side
Soldiers of the War of 1812 buried in Warren Co., Pa.,
Darius Mead
John Mead
William Mead.
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CONSCRIPT'S RECEPTION
At a meeting called at the Trask House, in Youngsville,
August 24, 1863, the following committees were appointed
to superintend a Pic-Nic, to be held on Judge Siggins'
Island, September 2, 1863 :
Committee on Arrangements
Cap't. G. J. Whitney
G. H. Pierson
G. W. Brown
Wm. J. Davis
B. J. Jackson
Table Committee
J. A. Culbertson and lady
D. McKee and lady
D. C. Bowman and lady
L. Spiesman and lady
A. J. Fitch and lady
Henry Broden and lady
W. H. Davis and lady
W. H. Shortt anJ lady
J. G. McKee and lady
A. March and lady
H. Patterson, W. H. Mead, J. G. McKinney, R. P. Davis,
N. W. Hull, N. H. Green, Miss Shortt, Miss D. E. Belnap,
Miss Alice Smith, Miss Fernan, Miss Mary Frees, Miss
Bell Mcintosh, Miss Mary Kinnear, Miss Delia Davis, Miss
Eliza Taft, Miss Sarah Jackson, Miss Permelia Carr, Mrs.
N. P. Belnap, Mrs. Sarah Shutt.
Invitation Committee
A. M. Belnap and lady
W. H. Davis and lady
P. V. Siggins and lady
D. K. Ranson and lady
Geo. Wyman and lady
Wilbur Mead and lady
E. P. Foreman and lady
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C. W. Arters, E. Taft, John McKinney, Charles Spain,
H. Patterson, Duma Mead, Jennie Patterson, Lucy Whit-
ney, Mary Scott, Hattie Pendleton, Olive McKinney.
Committee to Prepare Ground
Amos Hare, A. J. Fitch, Leonard Spiessman, Lloyd
Trask, J. G. McKee, R. P. Davis.
Lumber Committee
Hon. Wm. Siggins, J. A. Culbertson, D. Chipman, J. G.
McKinney, O. B. Davis.
Committee on Music
G. W. Kinnear, L. A. Chaffee, G. W. Brown.
Address by Hon. G. W. Schoffield.
YOUNGSVILLE BOROUGH.
Youngsville Borough is the largest town in Brokenstraw
township, and is located about the center of the township,
which was organized as "Number Four" March 8, 1821.
The name Brokenstraw it seems is taken from the Indian
word — Cushanadauga — bestowed upon this region from
the fact that the flats along the creek once bore a grass
which in the fall would break and bend over.
Youngsville is located on what was the site of a big In-
dian village known as Buckaloon, from here the Indians
floated down the creek to the river in their canoes and com-
mitted many depredations on the settlements along the Alle-
gheny river.
In 1781 they were overpowered by an expedition under
Col. Broadhead and the village of Buckaloon destroyed, to
fortify his position and enable him to keep the Indians
away, Col. Broadhead built a Fort on the hillside between
Irvine and Youngsville, the ruins of which may still be
seen.
Robert Andrews was the pioneer settler in the Broken-
straw Valley, coming a short time before John W. McKin-
ney; McKinney was an importation from Ireland, he was
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married in Lancaster to a Miss Arthur who returned to
the Brokenstraw region with him and their home was a
place of welcome for all wayfarers and a general gathering
place for the settlers of the vicinity.
In 1796 Matthew Young, a Scotchman and a bachelor
settled on the site of the town that was afterward named
for him — Youngsville, he made his home with John Mc-
Kinney, teaching the children in the evenings in return for
his board, he was well educated and a favorite with the
children, he also taught several terms of school in the
neighborhood — was the second county treasurer 1821-23 —
built the first saw-mill in 1807 — died in Deerfield Town-
ship in 1825. He was buried in Youngsville. He is described
as being tall, slender and erect, and of very light com-
plexion — he was simple in his character, earnest in his
purposes and eccentric in his habits with a kind heart for
all and an integrity that was never tarnished.
Matthew Young laid out many of the streets of Youngs-
ville and seemed to have a prophetic vision of its relative
importance in the county, in 1849 it had grown to be quite
a village and was incorporated September 4, 1849, it was
organized on the 15th of February, following by the elec-
tion of Archibald Alexander as burgess; William Siggins
and John Hull as councilmen; Philip Mead as treasurer;
Henry P. Kinnear as clerk; John Siggins as tax collector.
James Davis is quoted as authority for the statement that
as early as 1800, Matthew Young carved the quaint word
"YUNGVAL" on a large flat stone which stood for many
years turned upright so that all who ran might read.
The first merchant was Henry Kinnear, Sr., and the next
was Henry McCullough who started a store in 1830.
The first tavern in town was the unpretentious hostelry
of John McKinney. Matthew Young built the next hotel.
This was replaced by the Wade House. The Fairmount
House first saw the light in 1851 being built by John Sig-
gins.
The first resident physician in Brokenstraw township
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was Dr. John W. Irvine who settled at Irvineton, and the
first physician in Youngsville was Dr. James A. Alexander
who came in 1826 and was in active practice until 1853.
Youngsville Borough, is located on the site of the big
Indian Village — Buckaloon, from which the Indians floated
down the creek in their canoes and committed depredations
all along the Valley until 1781 when they were met and
overpowered by Col. Broadhead who destroyed the Village
of Buckaloon and built for the protection of the settlers a
Fort between the present villages of Youngsville and Ir-
vine, the ruins of which may still be seen.
Matthew Young for whom the town of Youngsville was
named, pitched his tent on the present site of Youngsville
in 1796, he laid out the town and prophesied that it would
one day be a large town.
He was a well educated man and taught school several
years. In 1807 he built the first saw-mill in the Borough,
and erected a log-cabin on the banks of the Brokenstraw.
In 1849 when the town was organized the following offi-
cers were elected : Archibald Alexander, Burgess ; William
Siggins and John Hall, Councilmen; Philip Mead, Treas-
urer; Henry P. Kinnear, Clerk; John Siggins, Tax-col-
lector.
In 1800 Matthew Young carved the word "Yungval" on
a large flat stone which stood in a conspicuous place, the
site of the present brick hardware store, and served its
purpose — that of giving the Village its present name.
Matthew Young died August 4, 1825.
John Siggins built the Fairmount House in 1851 ; Henry
Kinnear,. Sr., was the first Post-Master and presided over
the Brokenstraw office, as it was then called.
Until the year 1819 the inhabitants of all the vicinity
about Youngsville obtained their mail from the earlier
office at Pittsfield, but in that year Henry Kinnear, Sr., was
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appointed postmaster and opened what was known as the
Brokenstraw office at Youngsville."
The story of the Methodist church in Youngsville starts
back in 1806 when a few families had located along the
Brokenstraw creek and were engaged in lumbering and
farming, they felt the need of churches and longed to have
the privilege of religious services. Prayer meetings were
held at various homes. In 1800 the first ministers regular-
ly appointed by the Genesee Conference, preached occa-
sionally in the Brokenstraw valley and children born of the
few families were regularly baptized and communion ser-
vices were held. Honest John Gregg was an itinerant
preacher holding services according to the Methodist per-
suasion evenings and on the Sabbath. Other early settlers
were William Arthur, William Carpenter, William Coch-
ran, David Carr, Abraham and William Davis, Barnabas
McKinney, James and Elijah Davis, Judge William Sig-
gins, John Crawford, John Long and Joseph Gray. Among
the earliest pastors of the church may be mentioned John
McMahon, 1813; Burrows Westlake, 1814; Lemuel Lane,
1815; Daniel D. Davidson, 1816; Curtis Goddard, 1817;
John Summerville, 1818; Philetus Parkus and David
Smith, 1819-20; Parker Buel and Sylvester Carey, 1821;
Parker Buel and John W. Hill, 1822 ; Nathaniel Reader and
John Scott, 1823-24 ; Peter D. Horton and Joseph H. Bar-
ris, 1825 ; Joseph H. Barris and Dow Prosser, 1826 ; John
Chandler and John Johnson, 1827; Hiram Kinsley and
John Johnson, 1828 ; John P. Kent and L. L. Hamlin, 1829 ;
James Gilmore and John J. Swazey, 1830; John C. Ayers,
Samuel E. Babcock and Gideon Draper Kinnear, 1831.
In 1812 the first quarterly meeting was held with the
Rev. William Connelly in charge. Presiding Elder Jacob
Young and Bishop McKendree were present and assisted
in the revival services. This was the first record of a
Bishop of the Methodist faith being in Youngsville, and
through the impetus gained by this revival the first class
was organized."
(Warren Evening Mirror, Friday, August 22, 1913.)
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The first church organized in Brokenstraw Township
was the Methodist. Rev. William Connelly, the first preach-
er, held services near the site of the present town of
Youngsville in 1809. At this time the salary of an itiner-
ant preacher being Eighty Dollars a year and traveling
expenses; an additional Eighty Dollars being allowed for
the care of his wife and sixteen dollars for each of his
children.
The first class was formed in 1812 by Rev. Jacob Young
with the following eleven members — John Gregg and wife,
Jacob Goodwin and wife, William Arthur and wife, Anna
Mead and her son, Philip Mead, Betsy Ford, Polly Camp-
bell and Polly Arther. From the beginning until 1818 the
meetings were held in private houses or school houses. In
1817 the first church building in Youngsville was erected
and replaced in 1827 by a better building which served as
a meeting place until 1882 when the present commodious
structure was built on a lot situated in another part of the
town near the High School building.
The first settlement on the West side of Tidioute Creek
was made by William Kinnear who moved from the mouth
of Oil Creek and built a saw mill and later with the aid of
his sons, he built a grist mill. The Kinnear farm was sold
to an oil company in 1864. Later the town of Tidioute as
it appears to-day, occupied the site. John Elder's resi-
dence was near the mouth of Gordon Run. After him Sam-
uel Parshall, then James Magill lived there; Samuel Gran-
din next occupied and owned the Elder farm. He built a
saw mill in 1840 and opened a general merchandise store
to accommodate his lumber camp and the nearby neighbors.
His business prospered. The river banks were converted
into wharves and landing places for the boats which car-
ried the lumber to distant markets. Most of the heavy
round and square timber was rafted down to the river mar-
kets. Tidioute landing was a busy place. The surround-
ing hills rich in natural resources furnished commodities
far exceeding the needs of the settlers. Those frugal and
industrious pioneers through their lumber and oil activi-
32 SlGGINS AND
ties soon became well known in commercial and financial
circles. The imprint of their useful lives will long be felt,
not only in the Valley of the Allegheny where they labored
long and well but in many places where to-day are flourish-
ing philanthropies fostered by their generosity and busi-
ness activities of a far reaching and beneficial character.
From the Warren Chronicle, April, 1918, we clip the fol-
lowing interesting items :
The Tidioute Weekly News which has run continuously
for the past 44 years has been discontinued indefinitely.
The first issue was printed on October 31, 1874.
For our readers who would like to know a little past
record of Tidioute: —
On June 2, 1826, Tidioute borough was organized and
the first borough election was held on June 27, of the same
year.
The first well struck Oct. 4, 1866 on Triumph Hill was
250 bbls.
Jan. 1, 1870, Grandin Bros. Bank was opened and on
Oct. 24, 1871 the People's Savings Bank which was fol-
lowed the next day, Oct. 25, 1871, by the opening of the
Tidioute Savings Bank. The latter being the only one
doing business at the present time. The first bank in Tidi-
oute was run under the title of Wadsworth, Baum & Co.,
afterwards was changed to Grandin & Baum and then to
Grandin Brothers.
The winter of '76 was a remarkably open winter. New
Years day the thermometer registered 66 in the shade and
Feb. 21, 44 degrees, with no ice stored and only a few days
of sleighing. Ploughing was done the first 25 days in Jan-
uary.
Nathan Park Morrison was born in Deerfield township,
in what is called Morrison Hill, Jan. 17, 1835. He died
April 3rd, 1918. Mr. Morrison's father was one of the
first settlers in these parts, coming here before there was
a wagon road and taking his goods on horse-back up an
Other Families 33
old Indian trail to this farm, where he settled. On this
farm Nathan was born and lived all his life. He was one
of a family of nine, five brothers and four sisters, of whom
all have passed away before him with the exception of one
sister, Mrs. M. M. Osborne, of Janesville, Wisconsin.
Mr. Morrison was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ellen
Gillespie, who died about 30 years ago. A number of years
later he married again. Besides his wife, Sarah A., Mr.
Morrison leaves two sons, G. Clyde Morrison, of Tidioute,
and Claude P., who resides on the home farm.
TIDIOUTE BOROUGH.
Tidioute Borough was incorporated June 7, 1826; Peter
Smith who lived there wrote the following interesting facts
in 1847 concerning the settlement along the Allegheny river
from Brokenstraw Creek to the county line, he writes:
I was born in Crawford County, about four miles west
of Titusville, in what is now called Hydetown, in the year
1802, July 25. My father, with myself and others of his
family moved into Warren County, about four miles north
east of Tidioute, (then Brokenstraw Township) on the
north side of the Allegheny river in the spring of 1807, and
I remained at or near the same place till the fall of 1865,
when I moved into Tidioute, where I now reside.
When my father moved into the above mentioned place,
it had first been occupied by a Thomas Coulter, and then
came into the possession of a John Crawford, and after-
wards to my father, Charles Smith. The next neighbor
north was William Adams, who settled at a place known
as Connely Run ; and next after Adams, my brother James,
His son, Madison M. J. Smith now resides on the place, and
at the mouth of what is now called Conklin Run, a man by
the name of Rider then lived; next a man by the name of
Conklin ; then by James McGee, and it is now in the posses-
sion of an oil company.
What is now known as Thompson Station was in 1807
occupied by Samuel Welch; next by John Elder; next by
34 SlGGINS AND
Robt. Thompson, and in 1864 passed into the possession
of an oil company whose name I have forgotten. The next
place north at what is now known as Dunn's Eddy, was oc-
cupied by a widow Mclntyre in 1807. The place next came
into the possession of Jeremiah Dunn, and some of the
members of the Dunn family now reside there.
The next place now owned by W. A. Irvine, was, at that
time in the possession of a John Adams, then it passed
into the hands of Jacob Goodwin; then to Adam Schutts,
a Philadelphia farmer sent out here by Callender Irvine.
At what is now known as McGee Run, James Elder resided ;
then after him a George Berry ; next Samuel McGee, J. A.
McGee and J. P. McGee. It is now owned by John Fuell-
hart. The next place west toward Tidioute, was owned
and occupied by George Heterborn ; next by Thomas McGee,
and in 1865 passed into the hands of an oil company. And
at the present time James Middleton resides there, and is
the owner of one or two acres thereof with a house and barn
on it.
On the next place west, there lived a Hildebrand; then
a Christopher Young; then a John Thompson. The heirs
of Thompson next sold it to James Magill, and he to an oil
company, whose name has passed from my recollection,
but situate thereon at present is my friend, Barney A.
Snow.
The next place west, (now Tidioute borough) was oc-
cupied by Isaac Rhinehart; next by John Gilson; next by
John McGee; next by Anthony Courson; now by Clark
Benner, John T. Courson, and other heirs of Anthony Cour-
son, besides hosts of others.
The next place, which is now known as Maguire Run, was
owned and occupied by two brothers, by the name of Levi
and John Hicks. Levi occupied the east side of the run
and in 1810 was sold and occupied by Samuel Maguire. In
1862 Maguire sold to Josiah Hall and C. B. Curtis of War-
ren, and in 1864 the place was sold to the Maguire Run Oil
Co. Maguire lived on his old place until removed by death
Other Families 35
in 1865, and the farm is at present divided into building
lots - 1134389
Among the early settlers on the Upper Allegheny was
Jesse Dale and his wife Mary Lamb Dale. They owned a
homestead a short distance above Tionesta. They were
the parents of ten children. Their daughter Nancy was
born Oct. 25, 1813. She married James Guest Dawson, a
son of Thomas and Hannah Connelly Dawson. Another
daughter, Sarah A. was born in the old Homestead May 17,
1817. She is said to have been the first regularly hired
school teacher in Tionesta. She also taught in Tidioute and
at Allender Run. She was a life long consistent member
of the Methodist Church. She went with other members
of her family to the little log church on Jameson Flatts.
She made her home at Jacob S. Hood's where she died
August 1, 1901. Of her immediate family, a brother, Mari-
on W., of Brown's Valley, Minnesota, a sister Mrs. Margery
Walters, of Winona, Minn., and Mrs. Emily Gorman of En-
deavor, Penna., survived her.
J. A. Caldwell in his history of Venango Co., has this to
say of William Dawson, who belonged to one of the pioneer
families of the Allegheny Valley:
"The organization of the M. E. Church at Pleasantville
dates back to 1821. Old class books fix the date. Zachariah
Paddock of the French Creek Circuit, was the preacher, and
Glenzen Fillmore, of the Erie District, the presiding Elder.
The place of worship was a school house west of Pleasant-
ville, popularly known as the 'Methodist School House,' in
distinction from another east of the town where the Bap-
tists worshipped. A church was built in 1846, mainly
through the efforts of David Henderson and William Daw-
son. Among the men concerned with the early history of
the Church at Pleasantville, William Dawson stands preemi-
nent. He died in the prime of manhood, but not before he
had contributed largely of his time and money to the build-
ing of this church. He was a man of energy, enterprise,
ability and, above all, public spirited."
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During the year 1859 Col. D. L. Drake made the impor-
tant discovery in Oil Creek that there were to be found in
seemingly large quantities extensive deposits of petroleum
beneath the earth's surface. In 1860 the people of Tidioute
and vicinity began drilling for oil. So energetically was
the business carried on that at the end of six months, there
were over sixty oil wells in operation. Other towns in the
county were equally fortunate in obtaining producing wells,
— many of them are still yielding a paying output. In the
same year that oil was discovered in the county, a railroad
was completed from Erie to Warren and was hailed as an
event of the utmost importance.
John H. Galey who died in Joplin, Missouri, April 9, 1918,
aged 78 years, is said to have drilled the first oil well in
the Pennsylvania fields. He owned and operated the far
famed "Beaumont Gusher" called the greatest oil well ever
known. His activities in the oil fields covered a period of
half a century.
Judge Shippen had in his possession a draft of old Fort
Venango made by his uncle about 1758. The ruins of this
fort are still to be seen; the picture of the ancient Block-
house appears in this volume, — it stood in the center of the
fort which was about 100 feet square, and was surrounded
by a deep ditch connected with the nearby stream by a sub-
terranean passage — the benefits of such an arrangement are
apparent.
John S. McCalmont and James L. Connelly also Robert
Lamberton, were Judges of Venango County. Samuel P.
McCalmont, who was born in 1823, was a prominent member
of the Bar and an ardent advocate of Prohibition, was also
a member of the Legislature. He was a cousin of General
Alfred McCalmont.
Sometime in 1804, Rev. Andrew Hemphill with William
Connelly as guide, travelled from Titusville to Franklin
along the old Trail holding religious meetings and organ-
izing classes at Pithole, Pioneer, Franklin and other river
settlements; the Dawsons, Kinnears, Siggins, Greggs, and
OLD BLOCK HOUSE.
Other Families 37
others were among the attendants at these meetings. Rev.
Timothy Alden came to Western Pennsylvania in 1815 and
became the first President of Meadville College. He was
also missionary to the Indians. Alden and Levi Dodd and
John Martin, William Parker, William Raymond, Nancy
Kinnear, who married William Raymond, and Robert Mc-
Calmont were all instrumental in organizing and conduct-
ing a Union Sunday School. The first one started in Ven-
ango County was about 1824. The first newspaper was
edited and published by Alexander McCalmont and John
Evans.
38 SlGGINS AND
SIGGINS GENEALOGY.
The Norman origin of the Siggins family has been es-
tablished. The first of the name of whom we have record,
Chief Seguin, was with William the Conqueror at Battle
Hastings in 1066. See Duchess of Cleveland's Battle Abbey
Roll Vol. 3, P. 134.
This patriotic Norman chief left loyal descendants to
carry on the name down to James Siggins, who was born
about 1300; his sons were Richard and Phillip. Phillip of
Wexford Co. was born in 1350. Richard Siggins, Mayor of
Cork, was given license in October 1386 to buy oats, wheat
and barley in Wexford for transportation to Cork to relieve
that famine stricken city.
In December of the same year he went to England bear-
ing general letters of attorney. In 1432, September 6, we
find listed Maurice Siggins, Smythe; Walter Siggins,
Convyser; John Siggins, Convyser and Richard Siggins,
Convyser. Probably these men were brothers and de-
scendants of Richard Siggins, Mayor of Cork or of one of
his brothers. The first of the family from whom we have
the direct descent was
A 1. THOMAS SIGGINS 1 , of Walshgrange, coun-
ty Wexford, gent, by Chancery Decree dated 8
May, 7 Edward VI., recovered against Robert
Roche of Tamon, gent, the reversion of Walsh-
grange, Corbally, Knockbrake, Ballyronan alias
Mageston, the church of Culstonse, and Tamon.
Children :
A 2. i. THOMAS Siggins 2 , Died 20 September 1596,
leaving a son : Jasper Siggins 3 , then of full age,
who was of Ferns and Cloghteskin, county Wex-
ford, in 1621.
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A 3.* ii. MATTHEW Siggins-', held Ecclestown, Sig-
ginstown, Corbally, alias Sigginshaggard, alias
Walshgrange and Knockbrake, alias Ballyronan,
he married:
Margaret Codd, who survived him and was living
in 1633. Children:
A 4.* i. RICHARD Siggins, and other sons and
daughters. He held Ecclestown, Sigginstown,
Corbally, alias Sigginshaggard, alias Walsh-
grange and Knockbrake, alias Ballyronan. he
married:
Margaret Sinot, who survived him and was living
in 1634. He died December 24, 1629. Children :
A 5. i. PHILIP Siggins 4 , eldest son and heir, aged 12
at the time of his father's death, was a ward of
the king and died between 1634 and 1641, with-
out issue.
A 6. ii. ELIZABETH Siggins 4 .
A 7.* iii. EDWARD Siggins 4 , of Balla, inherited the
above named lands at the death of his brother
Philip.
He was attainted of high treason for participation in the
rebellion of 1641, and was transplanted to county Mayo,
1654, where he had a grant (in lieu of his Wexford estates,
which were confiscated) of the lands of Shanvallymore,
Rathredmond and Lissawollhan in the parish of Balla. He
filed a bill in Chancery, June 11, 1690, for the recovery of
the Wexford estates, but apparently did not succeed in re-
covering them.
The Sigginses of Wexford, had been seated in that coun-
ty from the time of the conquest according to his bill of
complaint, and were of Norman blood, and as such refrained
from the intermarriage with the "mere Irish" their origin
and unmixed blood thus agrees with the traditional origin
and type of the later Sigginses of county Sligo, who not
•nly affirm the tradition of Norman descent, but assert their
40 SlGGINS AND
derivation from Edward Siggins of Balla, through one of
his sons who settled in Sligo, — the neighboring Sigginses
of county Roscommon being descended, according to them
from another son who settled in that county, these Siggins
families settled in Sligo and Roscommon counties about
1700.
Edward Siggins 4 left no will, and the date of his death
and the name of his wife is unknown, but there is every rea-
son to believe that he had several sons, among them :
A 8.* i. EDWARD Siggins', a merchant of Dublin,
married, perhaps as his second wife. January
31, 1739;
Elizabeth Calbeck, to whom administration of his
estate was granted January 31, 1742-3, "for use
of herself and an only son John Siggins, a minor.
She died leaving a will dated January 18, proved
July 5, 1787.
A 9.* ii. SAMUEL Siggins"', m. but name of wife un-
known.
iii. WILLIAM Siggins', m. Mary Taylor.
iv. JANE (Ann) Siggins', m. Robert Unckles.
Samuel Siggins 5 , name of wife unknown. Chil-
i. SAMUEL Siggins 6 , m. Ann Middleton.
ii. CHARLES Siggins 6 , name of wife unknown.
(A10). William Siggins"', of Oran, county Roscommon,
1708; later of Drumcliff parish, county Sligo, Ireland, m.:
Mary Taylor. Children :
A 14.* i. ROBERT Siggins 6 .
A 15.* ii. JOHN Siggins 6 , m. SARAH HOOD (their
descendants will be given in another part of this
book). And several others who died young.
A
10.*
A
11.*
(A9).
dren:
A
12.*
A
13.*
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(All). Jane (Ann) Siggins"', m.
Robert Unckles, b. 1750; d. October 30, 1824; agd. 74.
They lived at Artarmon, county Sligo; they were Method-
sists and always lodged the preachers. Children:
A 16. i. WILLIAM Unckles", b. 1775 ; d. 1853 ; m. Jan-
uary 23, 1810:
Elizabeth Carney, and had a daughter:
A 17. i. MARGARET Uncles 7 , b. May 10, 1812,
who married:
M. Maloney, of Fermoyle, county Sligo, where she
was living in 1895.
A 18. ii ROBERT Uncles, Jr., 7 , who married April 8,
1812:
Anne Taylor.
(A12). Samuel Siggins 6 , (by some of his descendants
called "Jack") m.
Ann (Nancy) Middleton, of Rockmount, county Leitrim,
Ireland. Children.
A 19.* i. JOHN Siggins 7 , emigrated to the United
States, and was killed in the War of 1812, he
left a wife and one child.
A 20. ii. ROBERT Siggins 7 , was a "fine scholar", he
went to Quebec and traded between Quebec and
Savanah, he died in the south of yellow fever.
A 21. iii. WILLIAM Siggins 7 , went to Canada, he was
married and had two daughters and three sons,
the sons were in 1896, in the Queen's Printing
office in Quebec, the daughters married and
went to England.
A 22. iv. THOMAS Siggins 7 , entered the Navy, became
a coast guard, and lived to be 96 years of age, he
had four sons and four daughters all of whom
emigrated to Australia.
A 23.* v. GEORGE Siggins 7 , married and had five sons
and several daughters. He was b. May 1, 1807 ;
bpt. May 10, 1807.
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A 24. vi. JANE Siggins 7 , was buried August 16, 1816;
aged 21 years.
A 25.* vii. ANN Siggins 7 , was married three times, she
lived in Drumcliff, and died about 1890.
A 26. vii. MARGARET Siggins 7 , married:
William Young, and lived at Ballisadare, they had
two sons:
i. Young 8 , was a merchant at
Ballisadare, and
A 27. ii. Rev. GEORGE Young, who was living in
Toronto, Canada, in 1896, he visited the old
home in county Sligo, in 1884, and wrote a very
interesting letter regarding it which will be
found in this book.
(A13). Charles Siggins 6 , of Artamon, county Sligo, mar-
ried:
Elizabeth . His will is dated April 26, 1837 ;
he was buried June 19, 1837. Aged 79. Children:
A 28. i. GEORGE Siggins 7 , b. December 28, 1808; m.
Shaw, and went to America, where h«
died without issue.
A 29. ii. CHARLES Siggins 7 , came to America with
his brother George and settled in Toronto.
A 30. iii. ROBERT Siggins 7 , died in Ireland, unmarried.
A 31. iv. JOHN Siggins 7 , b. about 1804, d. 1876; m.
1840:
Jennie Henry, who died in 1881; their one child:
Elizabeth Siggins 8 , m. William Siggins, No. A.
44.
A 32. v. ALEXANDER Siggins 7 .
A 33. vi. JANE Siggins 7 , m. and remained in Ireland.
A 34. vii. MARGARET Siggins 7 , m. and remained in
Ireland.
A 35. viii. MARY Siggins 7 , m.:
Robinson, and came to America.
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A 36. ix. ANN Siggins 7 , m.:
Moore, and came to America.
(A14). Robert Siggins", registered as a freeholder in
county Sligo, April 14, 1768, name of wife unknown.
Children :
A 37. i. JOHN Siggins 7 , of Newtown, parish of Drum-
cliff; m. 1st, May 26, 1784:
Margaret Ferguson,
m 2nd.
Betty Wallace, who survived him.
His will was dated March 23, 1796; proved
April, 1797; mentions children: William and
Mary.
A 38. ii. SAMUEL Siggins 7 , of Cloghcur, parish of
Drumcliff; m. 1st, June 1, 17 — .
Jane .
m. 2nd.
Anne .
He was buried December 26, 1832; aged 75.
A 39. iii. CHARLES Siggins 7 , of Artarmon, Cloghcur
and Sligotown.
A 40. iv. LUCY Siggins 7 , mentioned in will of her
brother John.
(A23) George Siggins 7 , b. May 1st., bpt. May 10th,
1807, at Ballisadare, parish of Drumcliffe, county Sligo,
Ireland, removed to Newton where he was living in 1884,
his nephew Rev. George Young, of Toronto, Canada vis-
ited him. He died in 1889; married:
Mary McKim, b. 1820. Children :
A 41. i. THOMAS Siggins 8 , went to Australia, re-
turned after an absence of seven years and
married :
— i Barber ; Children :
i. WILLIAM George Siggins fl .
ii. THOMAS Fred Siggins 9 , of whom Rev.
George Young, says: "bothe very excellent
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young men and Methodist Class leaders."
Thomas Fred Siggins, died in 1918.
A 42. ii. JOHN Siggins 8 , married and lived at the old
home.
A 43. iii. MIDDLETON Siggins 8 , went to Australia.
A 44.* iv. WILLIAM Siggins 8 , married and lived near
by.
A 45. v. MARY Jane Siggins 8 , m. a son of Thomas Sig-
gins, No. A 22.
A 46. vi. ANN Siggins 8 , m. a son of Thomas Siggins,
No. A 22.
A 47. vii. EMMA Siggins 8 , living in Belfast in 1884.
A 48.* viii. GEORGE Siggins 8 , b. about 1858-9.
(A 25). Ann Siggins 7 , m.
DAVID Adams, b. in Scotland, son of Jack and Bessie
(Warren) Adams. Children:
JOHN Adams 8 .
THOMAS Adams 8 .
WILLIAM Adams 8 .
DAVID Adams 8 .
BESSIE Adams 8 .
David Adams, Jr. 8 , married.
Children :
GEORGE Adams 5 ', living 155, Templemore
Ave., Belfast, Ireland ; married.
A.55. JANE McSimonds, dau. of James and Eliza
(Middleton) McSimonds, of Rockmount, near
Manor Hamilton, County, Leitrim, Ireland.
Children :
A 56. i. ANN Elizabeth Adams 10 , m.
O'Neil.
A 57. ii. GEORGIANA Emily Adams 1 ", m.
Dixon.
A
49.
i.
A
50.
ii.
A
51.
iii.
A
52.*
iv.
A
53.
v.
(A52).
A
54.
i.
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A 58. iii. JANE Kathleen Maud Adams 10 , m.
West.
A 59. iv. FREDERICK W. T. Adams 1 ' 1 .
(A44). William Siggins s , son of George and Mary
(McKim) Siggins, b. 1842, Newton, county Sligo,
m. 1865.
Elizabeth Siggins, b. 1844 ; only dau. of John and Jennie
(Henry) Siggins.
Children :
A 60. i. THOMAS Siggins*, b. 1867.
A 61.* ii. GEORGE McKim Siggins 1 ', b. March 13,
1869, at Clough Boley Sligo; m. Ella Elizabeth
Foy.
A 62.* iii. ROBERT Siggins', b. 1871; February 5th,
Newton, Co. Sligo, m. 1904; Hattie I. Pres-
ton.
HENRIETTA Siggins 1 ', b. 1873 ;
MARY E. Siggins", b. 1875;
ELIZABETH Jane Siggins 9 , b. 1877;
ANNIE Matilda Siggins 1 *, b. 1879 ;
WILLIAM J. Siggins 1 ', b. 1883 ;
(A62). Robert Siggins 1 ', son of William and Elizabeth
(Siggins) Siggins; b. February 5, 1871; lives in Roxbury,
Mass.; has been a clerk in Jordon's Department Store in
Boston, Massachusetts, about 30 years ; m. June , 1904.
Hattie I. Preston, b. March 10, 1872; Calais, Me., dau. of
William W. and Sarah (Robinson) Preston.
(A61). George McKim Siggins 1 ', son of William and
Elizabeth (Henry) Siggins; b. March 13, 1869, at Clough-
boley, county Sligo, Ireland, married Ella Elizabeth Foy,
daughter of Rev. Edward A. Foy, Rector of Lismadill Ar-
magh.
Children :
a.61. i. GEORGE Claude Havelock Siggins" 1 , b. Jan-
uary 3, 1905.
A 63.
iv.
A 64.
v.
A 65.
vi.
A 66.
vii.
A 67.
viii
46 SlGGINS AND
. b.61. ii. JOHN Allen Edward Siggins 10 , b. June 28,
1909.
c.61. iii. ELLA Elizabeth Malvina Siggins 10 , b. Sept.
28, 1913.
d.61. iv. DONALD Cecil Clifford Siggins 10 , b. Nov. 12,
1917.
155 Templemore Avenue,
Belfast, Ireland, July 9, 1917.
Mrs. J. B. White,
Bemus Point, N. Y., U. S. A.
Dear Mrs. White:
I hope you will pardon me for not answering your letter
sooner.
I would be happy to assist you in any way in your
laudable work, but alas, in olden times people kept no
records of their ancestors.
Well, "Old Jack Siggins" who lived in the latter part of
the 17th century, had a family of five sons and two daugh-
ters:
John Robert, William, Thomas and George, this John is
the person you are connected with.
Geprge remained in the homestead, Thomas was a Chief
Boatsman in the Royal Navy, I cannot say anything about
William.
The daughters were Margaret and Ann, Ann (is No. 25),
was my mother, Margaret was married to a Mr. Young, of
Ballesdare in the county Sligo, they had a son the Revd.
Mr. Young, who emigrated to Canada, who paid a visit to
Ireland about the year 1884.
Yes, I know the Hoods, they have lived at Mount Edward,
which is near the Siggins place, for many years, there was
always a close friendship between them and the Siggins.
I cannot say where the Siggins came from, but I know
there are no people in Ireland of the name only this family.
George Siggins, the present occupant of the old home-
stead, could give you more information than I can, his
8s
o ^ o
A 68.
A 69.
ii.
A 70.
iii.
A 71.
iv.
A 72.
v.
A 73.
vi.
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address is George Siggins, Newtown, Ballinfull, county
Sligo, and the Hoods is Mount Edward Grange, county Sligo.
Yours truly,
George Adams."
(A48). George Siggins 8 , of Cloughcur, Ballinfull, county
Sligo. b. , 1858-59 ; m. Annie Shaw, dau. of
J. Henderson and Susanna (Lyons) Shaw. Children:
COOPER Siggins ,
EMMA Siggins 9 ,
EDITH Siggins 9 ,
MURIEL Siggins 9 ,
MABEL Siggins 9 ,
OLIVE Siggins 9 .
In a letter dated June 28, 1917, Mr. Siggins says:
"I am a son of George Siggins and of the fourth genera-
tion in the old homestead.
Should you ever visit Ireland you would be welcome to
see the old Home.
An Irish "Cead Mile Failte*," would await you."
CEAD MILE FAILTE* ELIM!
Song from the Invasion.
"Cead Mile Failte! child of the Ithian!
Cead Mile Failte, Elim!
Aisneach, thy temple in ruins is lying,
In Druim na Druid the dark blast is sighing,
Lonely we shelter in grief and in danger,
Yet have we welcome and cheer for the stranger.
Cead Mile Failte ! child of the Ithian !
Cead Mile Failte, Elim !
Woe for the weapons that guarded our slumbers,
Temreach, they said, was too small for our numbers ;
Little is left for our sons to inherit,
Yet what we have, thou art welcome to share it.
Cead Mile Failte! child of the Ithian!
Cead Mile Failte, Elim !"
Gerald Griffin.
*A hundred thousand welcomes.
48 SlGGINS AND
A 74. EMMA Siggins, Mrs. Emma Siggins Haney, of
Roxbury, Mass., 1896; b. at Newtown, county
Sligo, Ireland; m. 1st, about 1871.
William Clark, of ; he died in 1886,
and she m. 2nd in 1887.
John Haney, of Roxbury, Mass., his parents came
from the North of Ireland.
By her first husband she had seven children, one of whom
died before 1886, leaving four boys and two girls; by her
second husband she had two girls and one boy, her oldest
child, a son, was 22 years of age in 1896, and was a sales-
man in Jordan's store in Boston at that time.
She came with her first husband and family to Boston,
in 1884.
A 75. WILLIAM SIGGINS, came from Athlone, Ire-
land, his mother and her sisters, Mrs. Williams
and Mrs. Burnett, lived in Newport, Rhode Is-
land, he married and settled in Rochester, N. Y.
Children :
A 76. i. SARAH A. Siggins, m. S. A. Irvine, of De-
troit, Mich.
A 77. ii GEORGE H. Siggins, d. at the age of 27, un-
married.
A 78. iii. LOUIS Kossough Siggins, who was superin-
tendent of the American Bank Note Company,
of Philadelphia.
A 79. iv. WILLIAM N. Siggins, b. July 1, 1946, in
in Rochester, N. Y.
He enlisted at Detroit in the Ninth Michigan Regiment
under Col. W. W. Duffield, being the youngest man in the
regiment, starting as a drummer boy, then promoted to the
ranks, later served in the Eleventh regiment, was after-
ward assigned to the First Veteran Reserve Corps sta-
tioned at Washington.
He served as a special guard at the White House, six
months, during President Lincoln's term of office.
Other Families 49
LETTER FROM MR. YOUNG TO JOHN SIGGINS (74).
Trenton, Canada, June 22, 1896.
Dear Cousin Siggins :
I am more disappointed than my dear relatives can be at
my inability to fulfill my engagement at the reunion on the
24th, 1896. Having visited the Erin cradle of the Siggins
clan, and having learned of the Highland home of our an-
cestors, I was more than anxious this year to participate
in the festivities, in the hope of acquiring more definite in-
formation concerning our descent. I hope the following de-
scription of "Drumcliff" will convey some idea of the ro-
mantic spot left by Grandpa John Siggins and his family of
stalwart sons and daughters, when they emigrated to the
virgin wilderness of America.
Drumcliff, a parish of the county of Sligo, is a most ro-
mantic spot. Looking toward the west you behold the dash-
ing waves of the broad Atlantic, on whose bosom floats the
commerce of nations and whose waters wash the eastern
coast of this western continent, whose billows our ancestors
braved in search of freedom and independence. Behind the
observer's back are three mountains similar in contour,
shape and direction, so that in coming out north from Sligo
town, these three mountains named "Ben Bulbin" look like
one, and to the delight of the traveller or tourist open out
revealing most verdant glens, containing lovely lakes and
dotted with houses of nearly the same build, plan and white
color covered with a straw covering, but containing inmates
such as the Norman general declared should be called
"angels," hospitable in the extreme, and the abode of a
moral pious race principally the followers of John Wesley.
Looking towards the left or South is seen Sligo Bay, a sea-
port of considerable importance as a shipping port for the
farmers' produce and cattle to the English market. The
streams are small but numerous and full of trout. On the
crest of a hill are seen one of the old stone crosses with its
sculpture and symbols, and a well preserved round tower,
whose history is almost pre-Adamic, and whose age is only
50 SlGGINS AND
a conjecture. Here in this romantic locality dotted with
stone fenced and hedge-fenced farms of moderate size sur-
rounding the large domain and castle of Lord Gore, a most
beautiful nook, whose roads are like the asphalt roads of
America in smoothness without requiring the care neces-
sary to bestow on the asphalt. Its edges lined with oleand-
ers, and other flowering shrubs, the boxwood, palm, hazel,
cedar and pine, ash, oak and beach, furrowed and peopled
with rabbits, pheasants, and all kinds of wild game. Across
the Sligo Bay may be seen a large sugar loaf mound three
hundred feet high having in the center of its broad summit
a large aggregation of stones said to have been accumulat-
ed by the heathen practice of throwing a stone on the grave
of a chief. Still farther south may be seen the Ox (S)
mountains across the channel that opens into Ballasadan
Bay, at whose head I lived my boyish days and in whose
waters I learned to crest its waves. Still southeast is an-
other range of mountains, all of these around are green to
nearly their summits which are of bare rock, grey and
solemn in the distance. No wonder we love the green fields,
the nutting nooks in the cool woods, and the rollicking com-
panionship of the sons of Erin. This description of the
resting place of the Siggins clan in Ireland is too lengthy
and cannot be presented in a pen picture but must be seen
to be appreciated.
I will now endeavor to give as far as I could learn of our
common ancestry and the Irish branch of the family. I
may premise that there are no records of the older branches
of the family to be found in any archives of the nation, and
not till some time in 1800 was any systematic effort made
to make such a genealogical record. These have now to be
reported yearly to the record office held in the Four Courts
of Dublin.
Samuel Siggins, Charles and John, a nephew, were broth-
ers and nephews of the Mr. John Siggins who married Miss
Sarah Hood, and with his family emigrated to America.
John (the nephew) died without issue. Charles had four
sons, Robert, John, George and Charles. Robert never mar-
Other Families 51
ried, John had one daughter, who became the wife of Wil-
liam Siggins grandson of Samuel; George married a Miss
Shaw and emigrated to America leaving no family. Charles
went to America with his brother George and wife and they
settled in Toronto, Can. I have not been able to trace them
yet. Charles had four daughters, Jane, Margaret, Ann and
Mary. Mary married a Robinson, and had a fine family of
sons, when they left Ireland. Ann married a Mr. Moor, and
they emigrated also to America. Jane and Margaret mar-
ried in Ireland.
John, the eldest brother of Samuel, went to America, en-
listed as a sergeant, wrote a few letters home, then cor-
respondence ceased. He was spoken of as the finest speci-
men of a man one could wish to look at.
Samuel had five sons George, John, Tom, William and
Robert, and two daughters, Margaret and Ann. Margaret
married William Young, father of the writer. Tom en-
tered the navy, became a coast guard and lived to be 96
years old. He had four sons, William, George, John and
James and four daughters, all of whom emigrated to Aus-
tralia and settled in Milburn. William married and settled
in Quebec. His sons three in number, are in Queen's Print-
ing Office and two daughters who married and returned to
England. Robert, son of Samuel, was a fine scholar, came
to Quebec and traded between Quebec and Savannah. He
died of yellow fever. George, eldest son of Samuel, had
five sons, William, John, Thomas, Middleton and George.
George and John live on the homestead and are married.
William also lives a stone's throw off and has four sons,
Thomas, George, Robert and William John. George and
Tom are in Belfast. Robert is in Boston, 84 W. Newton
St. William John is at home going to school. Four daugh-
ters, Henrietta in London, Mary Emma in Belfast, Elizabeth
Jane at home in Newton Co. Sligo, and Anna Matilda mar-
ried to Mr. McKim of Dublin. Tom spent seven years in
Australia returned, then married a Miss Barber, and left
two sons, William George and Thomas Fred, very excellent
Methodist young men; class leaders. Middleton is in Aus-
52 SlGGINS AND
tralia and intends returning home, though having been
away eleven years.
(This letter was written to me by Mr. Young of Trenton,
Can., June 22d, 1896, and as this sheet is not signed it would
seem that there must have been part of the letter missing.
This letter was written shortly after visiting Ireland, where
he tried to look up the Siggins ancestors.
John Siggins.)
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SIGGINS-HAYS FAMILY
of Dublin, Ireland.
This family came from Goyle Co., Roscommon.
The first we learn of them is from a letter from Mrs.
Elizabeth (Siggins) Hays, of 42 Harolds Cross, Dublin,
August 5th, 1912, in which she states that her grandfath-
er's name was Thomas Siggins, and he had two brothers,
John and Michael; that John went to America about 1830,
and that Michael died in Goyle.
A80. THOMAS SIGGINS 1 was a printer ; he married :
Jane Purdue, who died in Goyle in 1885. Children:
A81. JANE Siggins", married:
Robert Thomas Scott, a surgeon, in the 76th regi-
ment. They had one son, Thomas Albert Scott.
All of this family are dead.
A82. JOHN Edward Siggins 2 ; b. 1822; d. 1859; m. 18. .
Sarah Wallace ; b. 1820 ; d. 1887. Children :
A83. JANE Sarah Siggins 1 ; d. 1887.
A84. THOMAS Edward Siggins 1 ; d. 1891; he married
and had a son and daughter.
A85. ELIZABETH Siggins 5 ; living in Dublin; m.
Hays, son of John and Francis (Cal-
back) Hays. Children:
JOHN William Hayes 4 ,
SARAH Frances Hayes 4 ,
THOMAS Wallace Hayes 4 ,
WILLIAM Hayes 4 ,
ELIZABETH Jane Hayes 4 ,
MARY Seeson Hayes 4 ,
DOROTHY Hayes 4 ,
NORAH Hayes 4 ,
VIOLET Hayes 4 ,
JAMES Calback Hayes 4 ,
VALENTINE Hayes 4 ,
ELEANOR Mary Hayes 4 ,
RICHARD Davis Hayes 4 .
A86.
i.
A87.
ii.
A88.
iii.
A89.
iv.
A90.
v.
A91.
vi.
A92.
vii.
A93.
viii.
A94.
ix.
A95.
X.
A96.
xi.
A97.
xii.
A98.
xiii.
54 SlGGINS AND
SIGGINS FAMILY OF CANADA.
Dudley Siggins married Bessie Moore; they were b. in
Ireland,- County Cannaught. Their son,
Samuel Siggins, of 402 St. Nicholas Apt., Washington,
D. C, was b. March 15, 1850, in Ontario, Canada; married
Elitia Dalson daughter of John Dalson.
Children :
i. GEORGE Siggins, had daughter who lived in Huron
Co., Mich.
ii. ELLEN Siggins ; m. Darius Flanaghan.
iii. ANNIE Siggins; m. John E. Showier, of London,
Ontario, Canada.
iv. LOINE Siggins.
v. JOHN Siggins ; m. Josaphine Graham, of London,
Ontario, Canada.
vi. SAMUEL Siggins.
vii. WILLIAM Siggins; d. aged 21 years.
This family came from Ireland but claim Huguenot de-
scent.
(Evidently of same family but connection not estab-
lished.)
TAYLOR COAT OF ARMS.
Other Families 55
TAYLOR FAMILY OF IRELAND.
Arms — Ermine on a chief gu. a fleur-de-lis betw. two
boar's heads couped and erect or.
Crest — a naked arm embowed holding an arrow ppr.
Motto : Prosequitur quod counque petit.
EDWARD TAYLOR, of Beverly, in Yorkshire England
who was chief "Faulkner" to King Henry the Third, A. D.
1273 was the ancestor of the Taylor and Falkner family in
Ireland.
1. Edward Taylor, of Beverly
2. James, his son
3. Nicholas, his son; settled in Ireland in the second
year of the reign of King Edward the First.
4. John Taylor, of Swords, in the Co. Dublin; son of
Nicholas.
5. William, his son
6. Alexander, his son
7. John-, his son
8. John'-
9. James, his son
10. Richard, his son
11. Robert, his son
12. George, his son
13. Michael, his son
14. John 4 , his son
15. John 5 , his son
16. John , his son
17. John 7 , his son
This family has several branches in Ireland, viz: Taylor
or Taylour of Dublin ; Taylor of Ballyhaise, County Cavan ;
Taylor of Ballyphilip, County Cork, who came to Ireland in
Colonel Saunder's regiment; Taylor of Old Court, Harolds
Cross, County Dublin; Taylor of Cranbrook, County Ferm-
56 SlGGINS AND
anagh ; Taylor of Athboy, County Meath ; Taylor of the City
of Dublin ; Taylor of Carrickf ergus ; Taylor Earl of Bectire ;
Taylor of Swords, etc.
Thomas Taylor, Earl of Bectire (b. 1844), was son of
Thomas (b. 1822), the third Marquis who was the third son
of Thomas (d. 1870), the second Marquis by his wife Olivia
Stevenson (d. 1834), who was the daughter of Sir John
Stevenson by his wife Anne Butler Moreton, the daughter
of John Moreton, of Rehoboth, South Circular road, Dublin,
whom in 1755 married Margaret Butler.
Taylor No. 2, of Ballyhaise County Cavan.
Arms: Ar. on a chief sa. two boars' heads couped fes-
ways of the first langued gu.
JOHN TAYLOR, of Ballyhaise, came from England ; he
had
2— Brockhill, of Ballyhaise, who died 10 July, 1636. His
first wife was Bridget (d. s. p.), daughter of Sir Richard
Waldron, and second wife was daughter of Sir Anthony
Cope, Knt. and Bart., by whom he had 2 daughters
1 — Eliza; married Humphrey Perrott, Esq., of Druma-
haise County, Cavan.
2 — Mary.
(Irish Pedigrees — by John O'Hart.)
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57
THE HOOD FAMILY.
(A99). JOHN HOOD, of South Perrott, in the time of
Henry VIII, farmed his broad acres as his ancestors doubt-
less had done for centuries before him.
His wife's name was:
Alice Children :
A100.* i. ALEXANDER Hood 2 , this name "Alexan-
der" has been perpetuated in the Hood (Hoode)
family for three centuries, was Churchwarden of
South Perrott in 1599, and died in a good old age
after living in the reigns of five monarchs from
Henry VIII to James I.
Baptized February 2, 1540-41.
Married :
Joan
A101. ii. JOHN Hood 2 , bpt. February 16, 1544-45.
A102. iii. JOANNA Hood 2 , bpt. February 20, 1542-43.
(A100)
married :
Alexander Hood-, bpt. February 2, 1540-41 ;
Joan Children :
A103. i. JOHN Hood :! , bpt. April 13, 1577; who lived
at Mosterton where there was a Chapel-of-ease
attached to the mother Church, and situated at
Chapel Court, a little over a half-mile from the
village on the Crewkerne Road.
His wife was a daughter, or closely related, to
Tremor Wills of Thorncombe and South Per-
rott, a family which gave a Warden to Wadham
College, Oxford, besides several Rectors of South
Perrott itself.
58
SlGGINS AND
Children :
A104. i. RICHARD Hood 4 , bpt. April 17, 1609.
A105.* ii. TREMOR Hood 4 , bpt. March 2, 1612-13.
A106. iii. ALEXANDER Hood 4 , bpt. Oct. 26, 1617.
A107. iv. JOHN Hood 4 , buried , 1632.
A108. v. HONORE Hood 4 , bpt. Nov. 28, 1606.
A109. vi. JOANE Hood 4 , bpt. April 30, 1620.
(A105) Tremour Hood 4 , of Mosterton, bpt. March 2,
1612-13. Lived in troublous times, in the days of the wars
between the Royalists and the Roundheads, and after a
life of close on to eighty years was laid to rest August 2,
1691, in the little Church at Chapel Court, Mosterton. His
wife : Jane ; d. September 10,1683. Children :
A110. i. JOHN HOOD', was the ancestor of several
thriving yeomen who for nearly a century
farmed Little Windsor in the neighboring parish
of Broadwindsor.
Alll.
A112.
n.
in.
A113.* iv.
A114.
TREMOR Hood 5 , died in 1668.
SAMUEL Hood 5 , born in 1651, at Mosterton,
was the scholar of the family, educated at Ex-
eter College, Oxford, entered Holy Orders and
became Rector of Hardington Mandeville, Som-
erset, in 1676.
ALEXANDER Hood 5 , lived at Little Wind-
sor ; married : Beach, daughter of Rev.
William Beach, D. D. "the patient Rector of
Orchestno," in Wilts, who suffered for his loy-
alty to the Stuarts in "Non-Juror days."
Children :
REV. ARTHUR Hood' 5 , M. A. Rector of Dow-
lish Wake in Somerset, and a graduate of Trin-
ity College, Oxford.
ADMIRAL SIR SAMUEL HOOD.
(A117)
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A115.* ii. REV. SAMUEL Hood 6 , "the father of those
gallant Dorset 'Sea-Dogs,' the first Lord Hood
and the first Lord Bridport.
b. 1689 ; bpt. January 6th, 1690.
A116.* iii. ALEXANDER Hood' 1 . On an ancient house
at Mosterton, the present New Inn exactly op-
posite the Church, may still be seen engraved
over the lintel the following Monogram:
H
A A
1748
His wife's name was Ann, and it was in that
house in 1724, was born Arthur Hood, that
promising young officer of the Royal Navy, who
was drowned in the Pomona in 1775, he was a
brother to Sir Samuel Hood, K. B., H. P., &c,
son of Samuel Hood, a purser in the Navy, and
and of Alexander Hood, R. N., who was Captain
of the Mars, and perished in the hour of victory
after the well known fight in which he captured
the French ship "L' Hercule" on April 21, 1798.
(A115). Rev. Samuel Hood'% b. 1689; bpt. January 6,
1690; entered Lincoln College, Oxford, March 5th, 1710-11,
aged 19; took his B. A. in 1714, M. A. in 1717; became
Vicar of Butleigh in 1723 ; Cannon of Wells in 1736 ; Vicar
of Thorncombe. He married :
Mary Hoskyns, dau. of Richard Hoskyns of Beaminster,
county Dorset. She died October 10th, 1766. Children :
A117.* i. SAMUEL Hood 7 , Admiral Sir Samuel Hood,
b. December 12, 1724, at Thorncombe.
A118.* ii. ALEXANDER Hood 7 , Baron Bridport, 1794.
b. December 2, 1726.
A119. iii. ELIZABETH Hood 7 , m. Alderman Edward
Walker, of Exeter.
A120. iv. ANN Hood 7 , d. unmarried.
60 SlGGINS AND
A121.* vi. SARAH Hood 7 , b. abt. 1750; m. abt. 1776; d.
Sept. 30, 1835 ; m. John Siggins, of county Sligo,
Ireland.
Will of Anne Hood of Butleigh, Somerset, spinster, dated
25 Sept., 1790, codicil 4 Oct. same year; proved 23 May,
1796: To be interred in Butleigh church, near my parents.
My two brothers, Admiral Lord Hood and Admiral Sir Alex-
ander Hood. Sister Elizabeth Walker and her husband, Ed-
ward Walker, Esq., Nephew Hon. Henry Wood, and his wife.
Nephew William Hood Walker. Cousin Anne Hoskins now
living with me. To my brother Sir Alexander Hood two
pictures in the hall, one our great-grandfather of our
mother's said, Maxmilian Gollop, and great-grand-uncle Mr.
Poulden, both merchants. (P. C. C. Harris 254.)
Will of Samuel Hood.
I, Samuel Hood, the unworthy Vicar of Thorncombe, co.
Devon, being in as good health as can be expected at my
age, make this my last will : to be interred within the
communion rails of Butleigh chancel, as near as can be to
my dear wife and four children Mary, Richard, John and
Arthur William, without pomp and as quietly as possible.
Each of my three grandsons (not named) 10 guineas at 21.
Anne Hoskyns my wife's niece. My dear brother signified
his desire to me before his death that my two daughters
should enjoy the three lease-hold tenements in Dowlish
after my decease. Daughter Anne 200 £. Sons Capt. Sam-
uel and Capt. Alexander £200 in trust for their sister Wal-
ker. To my said sons my two houses in Butleigh, in trust
for their sisters Anne and Walker. My leasehold estate in
Little Windsor is already settled on my two daughters.
Rest to my two daughters, whom executors. Dated 15
April, 1774; proved 29 Aug., 1777. (P. C. C. Collier 356).
WILL OF SAMUEL, Admiral Lord Viscount Hood,
dated 16 July, 1814, with a codicil of same date and an-
other dated 6 July, 1815; proved 23 Feb. 1816 — mentions "a
late beloved sister of mine" (P. C. C. Wynne 82).
Other Families 61
WILL OF ALEXANDER HOOD, Viscount Bridport,
dated 5 May, 1808, with codicils dated 10 Oct. 1809, 15 June,
1810, 18 Sept., 1810, 25 Sept. 1810, and 2 Aug., 1813 ; proved
8 July, 1814. (P. C. C. Bridport).
(A116). Alexander Hood' 1 , of Mosterton, married:
Ann Children :
A122. i. ARTHUR Hood 7 , of Mosterton, which he sold,
and died unmarried.
A123. ii. SAMUEL Hood T , of Kingsland, Dorset, who
married :
Anne Bere, dau. of James Bere, of Westbury, Eilts.
She died 1775. Children :
A124. i. ARTHUR Hood 8 , who was drowned on the
ship "Pomona" in a hurricane in the West In-
dies.
A125.* ii. ALEXANDER Hood 8 , Capt. R. N.; b. 1758;
married :
Elizabeth Periam.
A126.* iii. SAMUEL Hood 8 , 1st Bart. b. 1762; married:
Hon. Frederica Elizabeth Mackenzie.
(A117). Admiral Sir Samuel Hood 7 , 1st Viscount Hood,
K. B. A famous British seaman; entered the Royal Navy
in 1740. His first exploit was in 1759, when he took the
"Bellona." Lord Anson presented the victor to George
II., who gave him the command of the "Africa."
Hood, early in 1782, made the first attack on Count de
Grasse's fleet, and he commanded the van division under
Sir George Rodney, on the 12th of August, 1782, when
the Count de Grasse and his fleet were so memorably de-
feated. In 1793, Hood, commanding the Mediterranean
fleet, signalized himself by his victorious attack on Toulon,
and his capture of the island of Corsica.
He was made governor of Greenwich Hospital in 1796,
and in 1799 became admiral of the Red and G. C. B. He
62 SlGGINS AND
was created a baronet, as a reward for his achievements,
19th May, 1778. Baron Hood, of Catherington, in the peer-
age of Ireland, 2nd Sept., 1782, and Viscount Hood, of Whit-
ley, county Warwick, in the peerage of Great Britain 1st
June, 1796 ; b. December 12, 1724, at Thorncombe ; d. Jan-
uary 27, 1816; m. August 25, 1749.
Susannah Linzee, of Portsmouth, dau. of Edward Linzee.
She was elevated to the peerage of Great Britain, as Bar-
oness Hood, of Catherington, Hants, 27th March, 1795;
and died 25th of May, 1806. Their only son and child:
A127. i. HENRY Hood 8 , 2nd Viscount Hood, b. Aug.
25, 1753 ; married :
Jane Wheler, dau. and heir of Francis Wheler, of
Whitley. She died December 6, 1847.
Children :
A128. i. FRANCIS Wheeler Hood", Lieut.-Col. in
English Army; was killed in action on the
heights of Aire, south of France, March 2,
1814; m. October 11, 1804.
Caroline Hammond, only dau. of Sir Andrew Snape
Hammond.
A129. ii. SAMUEL Hood 9 , 2nd. Baron Bridport.
(A118). Alexander Hood 7 , 1st Viscount and Baron
Bridport, brother of Admiral Sir Samuel Hood ; entered the
British service at a very early age, and rose to be a great
naval commander.
His capture of two French vessels of war in action in
Hyeres Bay, in 1757, and his retaking of the "Warwick"
in 1761, won distinction; and his conduct as rear-admiral
under Lord Howe, at the relief of Gibralter, 1782, gained
for him the Order of the Bath. Hood, as second in com-
mand (his flag was hoisted on board the "Royal George,"
which encountered the hottest of the fire), contributed no
little to the ever-memorable victory of 1st June, 1794;
he was created Baron Bridport of Cricket St. Thomas, in
Ireland, 14th of November following. On 23d June, 1795,
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his lordship, with an inferior force (for half his ships had
been separated from him), daringly attacked the French
fleet of twelve ships of the line and ten frigates, close to
port l'Orient, and defeated them, with, on his side, little
loss and signal and splendid success; he was in conse-
quence elevated to the peerage of Great Britain, 13th June,
1796, as Baron Bridport, of Cricket St. Thomas, Somer-
set.
After scattering a French fleet which had landed some
troops in Wales in 1796, and after aiding in appeasing the
mutiny in the Nore, in 1797, Lord Bridport succeeded Earl
Howe as vice-admiral of Great Britain, and on 16th June,
1800, he was further advanced to the dignity of Viscount
Bridport, being then also a general of marines. He was b.
December 2, 1726 ; d. May 3, 1814 ; m. 1st 1761, Maria West,
dau. of Rev. Richard West, D. D., prebendary of Win-
chester; she d. Sept. 12, 1786; m. 2nd June 26, 1788, Maria
Sophia Bray, dau. and heiress of Thomas Bray of Edmon-
ton; she died February 18, 1831, agd. 85.
His lordship leaving no issue at his decease, the English
honors ceased, while the Irish baronry devolved, according
to limitations of the patent, upon his great nephew, Sam-
uel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport; b. December 7, 1788; m.
1810, Charlotte Mary Nelson, Duchess of Bronte.
(A125). Alexander Hood 8 , Captain Royal Navy, who ac-
companied Capt. Cook in one of his voyages round the
world, and after a long series of services, was slain on board
his ship, the "Mars," in the successful action with "U Her-
cule," April 21, 1796; b. April 23, 1758; d. April 21, 1796;
m. July 11, 1792.
Elizabeth Periam, dau. and heiress of Butleigh Wooton,
and of Middle Temple (descended from Sir William Periam,
lord chief baron of the exchequer, temp. Queen Elizabeth).
Children :
A130. i. ALEXANDER Hood", 2nd Bart, succeeded
his uncle (28), M. P. for western division of
Somerset; b. July 3, 1793; m. August 3, 1815.
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Amelia Ann Bateman, who d. January 31, 1883,
agd. 84., dau. and co-heir of Sir Hugh Bateman,
Bart, of Harington Hall, County Derby.
A131. ii. ELIZABETH Periam Hood 9 , who married De-
cember 7, 1837.
Rev. Francis Lunn, M. A. vicar of Butleigh, Somer-
set.
(A126) Sir Samuel Hood s , 1st Bart, entered the royal
navy at the age of 14, as a midshipman on board the
"Courageux," then commanded by his father's first cousin,
Samuel Hood u ', and having by a splendid series of services
attained the, rank of vice-admiral of the White, was in-
stalled knight of the Bath. Knt. of St. Ferdinand and of
Merit, K. G. C. of the Sword, returned to Parliament for
the city of Westminster, and created a Baronet April 13,
1809, with remainder in default of male issue, to his nep-
hew, Alexander Hood, who succeeded him ; b. November 27,
1762; d. December 24, 1814; d. s. p.; m. November 6, 1804.
Hon. Frederica Elizabeth Mackenzie, who d. November
28, 1862; eldest dau. of Francis, Lord Seaforth.
HOOD.
It is surely one of the most romantic passages of our
naval history, that from the family of a Dorsetshire yeo-
man of the seventeenth century should spring a brilliant
group of naval commanders, two of whom — brothers — be-
came peers of the United Kingdom, and a third — a cousin —
a baronet. In this present generation, a third peerage has
been conferred on the family in the person of Lord Hood of
Avalon.
In the reign of Charles II, Alexander Hood of Mosterton
married Elizabeth Beach, daughter of a neighboring clergy-
man, and had three sons — Alexander, Arthur and Samuel.
Of these Alexander married in the adjoining parish of
Netherbury, where he inherited the lease of the farm held
by his father in law, and had a large family of sons and
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daughters; amongst them Samuel (two others of this name
died in infancy) bap. 14 Aug., 1715. Arthur, the second son,
b. 1678; matriculated in Trinity College, Oxford, in 1694;
graduated 1697, and in 1709 was appointed to the rectory
of Dowlish Wake in Somersetshire. The third son, Samuel,
b. 1695; matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, 1711;
graduated B. A. in 1714, and M. A. in 1717; he was or-
dained; was for some time master of the grammar school
in Beamster, where he married Mary, daughter of Richard
Hoskins. In 1723 he was appointed to the vicarage of
Butleigh in Somersetshire, where in 1724 his eldest son,
Samuel, was born and three years later a second son, Alex-
ander. These were the two brothers afterwards known to
fame as VISCOUNT HOOD and VISCOUNT BRIDPORT.
"From Howard to Nelson," p. 361. 'Twelve Sailors."
• HOSKYNS.
Lineage. — This family has been settled in Herefordshire
for more than 400 years. John Hoskyns, Serjeant-at-law
from 1623, M. P., for Hereford 1604-29, educated at West-
minster and Winchester (being related to the family of
William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and founder of
the college), M. A., Fellow of New Coll. Oxon., b. 1566 (3d
son of John Hoskyns, M. P., for Hereford and Margery, his
wife, dau. of Thomas Jones, of Llanwarne) ; m. 1 Aug.,
1601, Benedicta, dau. of Robert Moyle, of Buckwell Kent,
by whom he had one son and a daughter. Mr. Serjeant
Hoskyns was at one time committed to the Tower for al-
luding, in his place in Parliament, to mercenary or Scottish
favourites. He was the intimate companion of Sir Walter
Raleigh and Ben Johnson, whose works he reviewed. He
was a man of sarcastic wit, considerable talents, and much
humor. At an entertainment which he gave to James the
I., at Morehampton Park he amused his majesty with a
morris-dance by ten persons whose united ages are said to
have exceeded a thousand years — "a nest of nestors," as
they were termed. His brother (?) Rev. John Hoskyns, D.
C. L., Fellow of New Coll, Oxon., Rector of Ledbury 1612-
66 SlGGINS AND
31, who d. 30 Aug. 1631, was a distinguished preacher and
chaplain to James I. The learned serjeant died 27 Aug.,
1638, and was s. in his estate by his only son, SIR BENNET
HOSKYNS. (Burke's Peerage.)
HOSKTOS ARMS.
Creation— 18 Dec., 1676.
Arms — Per pale az. and gu. a chevron between three lions
rampant or.
Crest — A lion's head erased or. flames of fire issuing from
the mouth ppr., crowned with the first.
HOSKINS.
This family has been settled for about 200 years on their
property in Haselbury Plucknett, Hardington Mandville,
North Perrott Somerset. Roger Hoskins temp Henry VII
migrated from Herefordshire and settled at Broad Winsor
Co. Dorset, and was ancestor of the Beminister and Long
Bredy families of the name.
(Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol. I, p. 814.)
WILL OF PETER LACKE.
Peter Lacke of Beamister, Co. Dorset, chandler (date
27 James I.) Bur. in Chyd. of Beamister: ch. and poor of
Hemmiock, co. Devon : ch. and poor of Crookhorne, co. Som-
erset., of Bridport and of Beaminster: godsons Peter Meade,
Peter Hayward, and Tobias Cooper; John son of bro. Nichs.
Lacke, Alice dau. of Nichs. ; cousin John Knollman of Hem-
miock., his chn. Nichs., son of my cousin John Lacke of
Hemmiock, house wh. I now dwell. Thomas Champion of
Beamister, his chn. ; Joane wife of Alexander Jessop, her
chn.; kinsman John Babbercome of Sherbourne; kinsman
John Edwards, William* Phippin; my apprs., Thomas Symes
and James Deowe; Thomasine, wife of William Shower of
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Topsham, Co. Devon. ; Rd. son of Henry Hoskins of Beamis-
ter; Extz. wife Mary (no sig.) Wits. Henry Hoskins, John
Hoskyns, Joane Jesop (mark) (pr. 23 May 1620).
(Abstract of Wills, Prerogative Court of Cantebury)
JOHN HOSKINS,
One of the early subscribers to the planting of Virginia
Colony.
John Hoskins, esq. — Sub. 37 pounds, 10 s. pd. — Youngest
son of John Hoskins M. P., for Hereford; was born about
1566 ; was of the Middle Temple ; M. P., for Hereford 1604-
11, 1614, and 1628-29. He made a noted speech in the
Parliament of 1614, for which he was committed to the
Tower on June 8; but was afterwards enlarged; made a
sergeant at law, and one of the judges of Wales. He died
August 27, 1638, aged 72.
(The Genesis of the U. S. by Alexander Brown, Vol. II, p.
926.)
NOTE — Should the name "William Phippen" in the will
read William Shippen. Richard Hoskins of the Province
of Pennsylvania in America makes Edward Shippen one
of his executors. See will of Richard Hoskins.)
WILL OF RICHARD HOSKINS.
Richard Hoskin of the Province of Pennsylvania in
America, merchant now resident at London, 4th May, 1700.
Proved 20th March, 1700. I give and bequeathe all mes-
suages, land &c, in Pennsylvania to my son Aurelius Hos-
kins. To my four daughters Martha, Mercy, Mary, Ann
Hoskins four beds and my late wife's daughters wearing
apparel, and such and so much other linen, as sheets and
table linnen, as my executors in Pennsylvania shall direct.
All the rest of my personal estate there to my said son
Aurelius. To my loving friend Phillip Collins, planter, and
John Groves, merchant both of the Island of Barbados, all
68 SlGGINS AND
my plantation &c in the said Island, and all my goods stock
&c there, and I make them sole executors as to my said es-
tate there in trust to sell and dispose of the same after,
and remit the moneys arising by sale there of to my loving
friend Edward Shippen, and Samuel Carpenter at Pennsyl-
vania, deducting thereout seven pounds percent out of what
they shall so remit, for their care and pains in getting in
and sending the same, and deducting fifty pounds of Bar-
bados money shall be sent to Dr. Thomas Loure my phy-
sician, for his extraordinary care and pains and great ex-
pense about me in my sickness in London. My loving friend
Theodore Eccleston to be sole executor as to my estate in
or near London (with provision for shipping to Pennsyl-
vania, having deducted commission) To David Lloyd, for
his great care and pains in the educating and instructing of
my said son, thirty pounds. Provision for maintenance of
daughters. Edward Shippen, Samuel Carpenter, and David
Lloyd to be sole executors at Pennsylvania.
(Dyer 38.)
Richard Hoskins was "an eminent Physician and min-
ister of the Gospel." He died in England while on a visit.
His wife died in Philadelphia in 1698. His daughter Ann
died 1719; married 11 Jan., 1710, John Carpenter the son of
Samuel Carpenter mentioned above. Walter K. Watkins.
From Genealogical Gleanings in England, p. 1258.
by Henry F. Waters.
THE METHODIST CHURCH.
Methodism was first introduced into Philadelphia in the
year 1769, by the late Rev. Dr. Joseph Pilmore of St. Paul's
Church, he having then as a young man arrived here on a
mission from Rev. John Wesley. Among the novelties of
his day, he was occasionally aided in preaching by Capt.
Webb, the British barrack-master at Albany, who being a
Boanerges in declamation, and a one-eyed officer in military
costume, caused attraction enough to bring many to hear
from mere curiosity, who soon became proselytes to Meth-
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odism. The first church owned by the Methodists was St.
George's, in Fourth near New street. It was an unfinished
building which they bought from the Germans. It was then
customary with the female worshipers to carry with them
small wooden stoves for the feet. The front door was in
the center; and about 20 feet from the east end. Inside
there stood a square thing not unlike a watch box, with the
top sawed off, which in that day served as their "pulpit of
wood," from whence the Rev. Mr. Willis used to read pray-
ers to the sermon, from Mr. Wesley's Liturgey and JOHN
HOOD raised the hymn standing on the floor. In the Pres-
byterian and Baptist and Methodist churches, the singing
was lead by one good singer standing below the pulpit, and
bearing the appellation of "the setter of tunes" such were
"Josey Eastburn" and "Johnny HOOD," names long en-
deared to many. The "sweet singer" of that church, famil-
iarly called Johnny HOOD, was himself a singer wholly for
nature's sake, one who had never learned one note of gamut-
music, and yet he never jarred or failed. His sweet smiling
face too, whilst he sang was only equalled by the charm of
his clear melliflous voice."
Watson's Annals of Phil, and Pa. by John Watson.
Revised by Willis P. Hazzard, Vol. I, p. 455.
Richard Hoskin 1 , b of the province of Penn-
sylvania ; d. will proved March 20, 1700 ; m ; she
d. 1698.
AURELIUS Hoskins 2 .
i. MARTHA Hoskins 2 .
ii. MERCY Hoskins 2 .
v. MARY Hoskins 2 , b ; d. Oct. 10, 1795;
m. Rev. Samuel Hood, b. 1678.
v. ANN Hoskins 2 , b ; d. 1719; m. Jan 11,
1710, John Carpenter, son of Samuel.
70 SlGGINS AND
LINZEE FAMILY.
Edward Linzee 1 , b of Portsmouth, Southhamp-
ton ; d ; will proved June 25, 1783. Children :
i. SUSANNA Linzee 2 , m. Aug. 15, 1749, Sir Sam-
uel Hood, b. Dec. 2, 1724.
ii. EDWARD Linzee-.
iii Linzee 2 , m. Samuel Sone, and had
i. Sarah Sone 3 .
iv. SARAH Linzee 2 , m Hollwell.
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SOANE FAMILY.
Sarah Anderson, 1652, by Henry Soane Co.
Judith Soane, Sr., Judith, Jr., John and Elizabeth, by
Henry Soane of James City, Co. Va.
(Early Immigrants of Virginia.)
George Hood married Jane Curry, Jan. 17, 1791 ; Surety
Robert Curry.
(McAlister Vol. II, p. 296)
George Hood Estate committed to sheriff, Feb. 17, 1795.
(McAlister Vol. I, p. 279)
James Young appointed guardian to orphans of George
Hood, July 21, 1795.
McAlister, Vol. I, p. 281)
Dec. 7, 1745 — John Hood, 400 acres between the land of
Hugh Thompson and Col. Wood, near Robert McMahan
(afterwards McMahon's land).
72 SlGGINS AND
HOOD FAMILY.
This Hood family came originally from Scotland, settled
in Ulster, later going to county Sligo, where many of their
descendants still live.
The names of these who settled in Sligo, were :
A132.* i. ALEXANDER Hood 1 ; m.
Elizabeth Henderson.
A133. ii. NATHANIEL Hood 1 , of whom all trace is
lost.
A134. iii. WILLIAM Hood 1 ; went to Leitrim County,
where his descendants still live.
A135. iv. MARY Hood 1 ; m. Gregg, they had
two sons, who joined the army, of whom noth-
ing further is known.
A136. vi. SARAH Hood 1 ; m. John Siggins, and went to
America (this may have been the John Siggins,
who was killed in the War of 1812).
Alexander Hood 1 ; d. 1871, agd. 84; m. Elizabeth Hen-
derson. Children :
A137. i. CATHERINE Hood 2 , went to America.
A138. ii. NATHANIEL Hood 2 , went to California, he
returned to Ireland, and again went to Cali-
fornia, when all trace of him was lost.
A139. iii. WILLIAM Hood 2 , lived and died at Mount
Edward, Ireland ; died at the age of 85 ; married :
Eliza Young, and had a large family.
A140. iv. JAMES Hood 2 , served a number of years in
the R. I. C, retired and went to America, where
he died unmarried.
A141. vi. MARY Anne Hood 2 , went to America.
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A142. vi. SARAH Hood-, went to America; she was
married three times, and had children by each
husband; she died about 1913; aged 84.
A143.* vii. ALEXANDER Hood 2 .
A144. viii. ROBERT Hood-, inherited the home estate;
he died aged 71; married Susan Jane Warren;
no issue.
A145. ix. JANE Hood-, m. Francis Walker, the family
live at Ballinful, Co. Sligo.
A146. x. ELIZABETH Hood 2 ; died in infancy.
(143) Alexander Hood-, Alexander 1 ; d. at the age of 61
years ; m. :
Mrs. Euphemia (Young) Monds, a widow, who owned an
extensive farm at Money Gold, Co. Sligo. She died at the
age of 71. Children:
A147. i. ROBERT Hood 3 , went to Australia and mar-
ried there.
A148. ii. ALEXANDER Hood 3 , m. Rebecca S. Taylor;
served as Sergt. in the R. I. C. ; retired on a pen-
sion of fifty pounds per annum ; inherited by
will the estate of his uncle Robert Hood, in 1906,
and is now living on the far mat Ballinful, Co.
Sligo.
A149. iii. MARY Jane Hood 3 , is Matron in the Hospital
at Christchurch, New Zealand.
A150. iv. vWILLIAM Hood 3 , serving in the R. I. C. as
adjutant.
A151. v. NATHANIEL Hood 3 , m. and is living at the
old home in Money Gold.
A152. vi. JOHN Hood 3 .
(This information furnished by Alexander Hood 3 , of Bal-
linfull, Co. Sligo, Ireland, January 26, 1918.)
74 SlGGINS AND
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER.
Ballingful Co. Sligo Ireland.
March 12, 1918.
Dear Mrs. White.
As our family are now residing for such a long period
in this Country it is only natural to expect that they have
long since ceased to correspond with the family in Scotland.
It is highly probable that the late Admiral Hood was de-
scended from the same ancestor as ourselves. The Hood
family here can justly claim to have been one of the leading
families in this Country, not one of whom has ever been im-
plicated in any wrongdoing.
Yours truly
Alexander Hood.
NOTES REGARDING THE SlGGINS FAMILY.
The first record of the Siggins family in America is found
in the passenger list of those to be transported to Virginia.
21st August 1635.
"Theis underwritten names are to be transported to Vir-
gineia ; embarqued in the David Jo : Hogg Mr., have been ex-
amined by the Minister of Gravesend. touching their con-
formitie to the Church discipline of England and have taken
the oath of Allegiance and Supremicy.
Thomas Siggins; 18
Margaret Walker ; 20
George Butler; 27
Wm. Barber; 17,"
and others.
(New Eng. Hist, and Gen. Register. Vol. XV. p. 145)
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SIGGINS.
"The name "Siggins" has been variously written. In the
"British Family Names Their Origin and Meaning" by
Rev. Henry Barber, M. D., F. S. A. we find "Segoin-Anglo
Saxon-Segen, Segwin, Sigen. Sigewine; Flemish-Seghin ; p.
n (Victorious friend). Seguin, Hugenot. n. London 1688."
SIGGINS MARRIAGE RECORD.
"The Register of St. Paul's Church Vol. III. p. 71 (Eng-
land) Convent Garden Marriages, 1653-1837. August 14,
1699— Thomas Siggins and Elizabeth Fisher, both of Mol-
sey in Surrey, by Mr. Hallowell with lisence."
"In O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees, Vol. 2. p. 96 we find the
name of Siggins mentioned as among the principal fami-
lies in Ireland at the close of the 17th Century."
This genealogy of the Siggins Family would be incom-
plete without mention of the Rev. David Kinnear (whose
number in the genealogy of the "Kinnear's and their Kin"
is —135.)
He is justly styled "Historian of the Kinnear Family".
He surely deserves the same appelation in the Siggins Fam-
ily, as we are indebted to him for many of our early rec-
ords.
The Rev. David Kinnear, was born June 1, 1802, in Al-
legheny Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, mar-
ried March 10, 1840, at the Indian Manual Training School,
Indian Territory, Elizabeth Lee, who was born in the sate
of New York.
He was a son of Rev. Andrew and Dinah (Young) Kin-
near, his mother was a daughter of Rev. William and Jane
(Simpson) Young.
He was a grandson of Andrew and Mary (Delmar) Kin-
near and great-grandson of James Kinnear, of Leitrim
County, Ireland.
76 SlGGINS AND
Rev. David Kinnear was a most devout and faithful mem-
ber of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and in his manu-
script there are many quaint expressions showing his de-
votion to that faith.
It is a matter of deep regret that we have no likeness of
him and that he left no children to inherit his noble char-
acteristics, but I am sure we all revere his memory and
appreciate the interest he has taken in the posterity of our
emigrant ancestors, the records he so faithfully preserved
constitute the foundation of "The Kinnear's and their Kin"
and the early Pensylvania Siggins family and their descend-
ants mentioned in the following pages.
Rev. David Kinnear traced the ancestry of the immigrant
John Siggins, who came to Pennsylvania in 1793 no farther
back than his father and mother William and Mary (Tay-
lor) Siggins, and the following records will commence with :
William Siggins who is descended from Thomas Siggins
of Walsingrange as follows :
Thomas Siggins of Walsingrange, county Wexford his
son
Matthew Siggins, m. Margaret Codd their son
Richard Siggins, m. Margaret Sinot their son
Edward Siggins, of Balla, m. their son
William Siggins, m. Mary Taylor
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SIGGINS FAMILY IN AMERICA.
1. WILLIAM Siggins 1 , (Number 10A, in the Sig-
gins Family of county Sligo, Ireland) and his
wife :
Mary Taylor, were the parents of :
2. JOHN Siggins- 2 , 1750-1801, the first Ameri-
can ancestor of Pennsylvania Siggins Family,
was born, 1750, in county Sligo, Ireland, died,
1801 (on a farm called: "Spring Creek", two
and one-half miles below "Old Centre Furnace",
Centre County, Pennsylvania, of which he was
a tenant, this farm was owned by Robert White-
hall.) He married in county Sligo, Ireland,
about 1776:
Sarah Hood, (See Hood ancestry), in 1793, they,
with their children emigrated to America, set-
tling first near Philadelphia, from there to
Centre County, after the death of John Siggins
his widow with her family removed to Youngs-
ville, Warren County, Pennsylvania, where the
widow died September 30, 1835, aged 85 years.
"Soon after their marriage, both John and Sarah
Siggins experienced religion through the instru-
mentality of the Methodist preaching and united
with that church."
Of Sarah Siggins the Rev. William Todd says :
"Sister Siggins came to Youngsville in 1816
united with the Methodist church of that place,
and for more than fifty years she was a meth-
odist and walked consistently — in every situa-
tion she was sustained, she was loved, her end
was peace".
78 SlGGINS AND
Children :
3.* i. FRANCES Siggins 3 , 1777-1847, m.:
Benjamin Baird.
4.* ii. GEORGE Siggins 3 , 1778-1868, m. first:
Jane Young, m. second :
Pheobe Dawson.
5.* iii. WILLIAM Siggins*, 1789-1875, m.:
Mary (Polly) Wilson.
6.* iv. SARAH Siggins 3 , 1790-1859, m.:
Isaac Connely.
7.* v. JOHN Siggins 3 , 1792-1819, not married, died
at Natches, Mississippi, in May 1819, while en-
route home from New Orleans, where he had
taken a raft of lumber.
8.* vi. ALEXANDER Siggins 3 , 1793-1858, m.:
Margaret Kinnear.
(3). FRANCES SIGGINS 3 , b. 1777, in Sligo County, Ire-
land, d. 1847, in Lockhaven, Pa., m.
Benjamin Baird of Lockhaven, Pa. Their children were:
9. i. BENJAMIN Hood Baird 4 , m. and had :
10. i. ELIZA Frances Baird 3 , m.
Harris.
11. ii. Dr. EDMUND J. Baird 5 , m. and had:
12. i. DONALD C. Baird", of Lockhaven, Pa.
13. ii. FLORENCE E. Baird 6 ,
14. iii. ALFRED T. Baird", m. and had :—
15. i. ARTHUR Baird 6 ,
16. ii. FRANCES Baird 6 ,
17. iii. MARY E. Baird 6 ,
18. iv. EDMUND C. Baird 6 .
19. ii. MARY Baird 4 ,
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20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
iii. Rev. WILLIAM Siggins Baird 4 , was a gradu-
ate of Aleghaney College, while a student there
he walked to Hickory to spend his vacations
with his uncle George Siggins, Sr. He m.
Rebecca Emily Everett, who d. March 26, 1896, at
Washington, D. C. Their children were :
i. EVERETT Baird', who died young.
ii. FRANCES Baird'.
iii. JENNIE Baird"', was living in 1917,
1210, K. Street N. W. Washington, D. C.
at
iv. ALMA Baird-"', and four others who died in
infancy.
iv. RACHEL Baird 4 , m.
Fletcher Hamlin. Their children were:
JAMES Hamlin 5 .
WILLIAM Hamlin '.
FRANCES Hamlin 5 , m.
26.
i-
27.
ii
28.
iii
29.
iv.
30.
31.
i:
32.
i
33.
34.
35.
v.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
\
Gilday.
BENJAMIN B. Hamlin', m. and had:
BENJAMIN B. Hamlin, Jr.".
i. ANNIE Hamlin 6 .
ii. MARY Hamlin' 1 , m. Ash-
man, and had:
i. BENJAMIN H. Ashman 7 .
ii. RICHARD Ashman 7 .
FLETCHER Hamlin", m. and had :
BLANCHE Hamlin".
i. JAMES Hamlin' 1 .
ii. MYRTLE Hamlin ; .
v. JESSIE Hamlin 6 .
r. JOHN Hamlin 6 .
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41. v. LYDIA Baird 4 , m. Gifford, and
had:
42. i. FRANCES E. Gifford 5 , d. young.
43. vi. FRANCES Baird 4 , m.
Else, and had:
44. i. BENJAMIN Baird Else 5 , m. and had :
45. i. GERTRUDE Else.
46. ii. JOHN Else 5 .
47. iii. EMORY Else 5 .
48. iv. CHARLES Else 5 , a druggist at Milesburg,
Pa., 1895, at that time his eldest brother was
living in Florida; their mother died when
Charles was eight years of age.
COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO MR. GEORGE
SlGGINS, HICKORY TOWN, VENANGO CO.
In Care of Mr. Alexander Siggins. Written from Lock-
haven, Clinton Co. July 21, 1847, by Frances Baird.
"Dear Brother and Sister:
I wish to let you know that I am still on the land of the
living but know not whether you are or not, it is so long
since I have heard from you.
My health is tolerable for my age, and am still able to be
around and attend the house of God where my delight still
is. I have accomplished my three score years and ten and
am now waiting the coming of my Lord and Master to re-
ceive me to himself for I feel assured that where he is,
there I shall be also, and there also I hope to meet with my
dear brother and sisters from whom I have so long been
separated. The Lord has been very good to me and I have
had very kind children.
GEORGE CALLANDER SIGGINS.
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I have always lived on the old place till last spring. I
lived with Benjamin three years after he was married and
intended to stay there while I lived. But I have now left
there and Mary and I live together in Lockhaven.
I want you to let Sally see this letter and tell her to
write to me and let me know how things are and how they
are coming on, and I will then write to her. We are look-
ing for them with Alex, and Mary to pay us a visit this
summer. I would be glad to see any or all of you. A great
many years have passed away since you wrote to me. I
hope you will answer this. My children are all in usual
health. They all live within a few miles of me except
William. He has been traveling in Maryland the three last
years. He was married last spring. We expect them to vis-
it us this summer. He was home last fall. I remain as
ever your affectionate sister,"
Signed FRANCES BAIRD.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM FRANCES BAIRD.
My grandfather, William Siggins, lived in the county of
Sligo, seven miles from Sligo, Ireland, where his forefathers
had lived. He was a farmer, a churchman, as pious as any
in his day — worshipped at Drumcliff — would pray aloud in
secret — was very much esteemed by the nobility. His
wife's name was Mary ; her maiden name, Taylor.
They had twelve children. They all died in infancy, but
two — my father and one of his sisters.
He adhered to the Church, but when the Methodists came
round he took them in. One I recollect, old Mr. Graham.
He loved them and frequently went to hear Mr. Wesley.
After the death of his parents and sister, father and
mother came to America with six children. We landed in
Philadelphia the first year the yellow fever raged — left
soon and went to Carlisle — attached themselves to the M. E.
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Church, stayed a year and then went to Penn's Valley, Cen-
ter Co. There I was married and left home. Father died
about eighteen hundred, very happy, praising the Lord,
and talking while he had breath. A rich man in the place
said he would give all he had to die like him.
My mother's maiden name was Sarah Hood. She had
three brothers — one lived in England. She was a woman of
strong mind and good judgment. Lived and died a christ-
ian at the age of 85.
I was born in 1777 in the county of Sligo, — was 15 when
I came to America. The Lord put it into the heart of my
father to come to this country. There were but few who
came from those parts of Ireland. Many discouraged him.
I loved him dearly — he had such a Christian spirit. All
who knew him loved him.
I am firm of the opinion that the Lord will have a people
among the Bairds while they live, according to the promise
of God to your father — "I will bless thy numerous race and
they shall be a seed for me," when as yet he had no chil-
dren.
They took the first Methodist preachers in that ever vis-
ited this part of the country, nothwithstanding their
wicked neighbors said they were impostors, and would eat
them out of house and home. Yet they treated them kind-
ly and the Lord has blessed them and their posterity for it.
(Signed) FRANCES BAIRD.
1848.
The above is copied from the original in my grand-
mother's handwriting.
Washington, D. C. JANIE BAIRD.
February 10, 1917.
E. HARRIET (SIGGINS) HOWE.
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GEORGE SIGGINS.
George Siggins, eldest son of John Siggins, was born in
the parish of Drumcliff, County Sligo, Ireland, in the year
1778. When fifteen years of age, his father emmigrated
to America. Having been a well to do land holder, he pos-
sessed means enough to engage in business, but having lost
money by going security for a friend, he finally leased a
farm in Centre county, Pennsylvania, at a place called
Spring Creek. Here in 1800 George was married by the
Rev. David Stephens, to Jean, eldest daughter of the Rev.
William and Jean Young of the same place. She was a
beautiful child, being but sixteen years of age, was con-
verted at the age of fourteen years, and was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. We have very interest-
ing notes, dates, and incidents relating to her family.
Her father was a man of unusual talent and spirituality.
He was converted when twenty years of age under the
labors of Rev. Charles Graham, one of the first Methodist
preachers sent by Mr. Wesley to the north of Ireland. Mr.
Graham is spoken of by Frances Baird who was a sister
of George Siggins, as the first one she, as a young girl, re-
membered as a Wesleyan preacher. William Young was
born in County Sligo, Ireland, May 1, 1755. He was joined
in holy wedlock to Miss Jane Simpson in 1780. She was
born in County Sligo in August, 1752. Her father was John
Simpson. He and all his family were members of the es-
tablished Church. One of his brothers came to this coun-
try about the year 1748 and settled in Bucks county about
twenty miles from Philadelphia. The father of William and
John Simpson was the great-great-grand father alike of
Gen. Ulyssus Simpson Grant, of Jefferson Davis, and of my
father — George Simpson Siggins. In 1801, after his fa-
ther's death, George Siggins moved to Pithole, Venango
county, Pa., where he bought a tract of land from the Hol-
land Land Co. Here after many discouragements, and
having learned the advantage of living near the river, he
chose a farm in Warren Co., Pa., below Tidioute. He re-
tained possession long enough to build a home, improve the
land, plant an orchard, and leaving the stamp of the genu-
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ine pioneer, he gives the evidence of yet superior judgment,
by making a final move to what is now known as West
Hickory, Forest county, Pa. He bought several hundred
acres of land facing the Allegheny, and extending back to
Hickory Creek. Upon the high bank of the Allegheny
and gently sloping fields, which he and his sturdy sons had
cleared, George Siggins built another home. The first was
of hewn logs, and which I remember having seen. Here
the brave wife of the pioneer must have found hope spring-
ing up in her heart. The unwritten annals of her life might
well form the theme of romance, the pathos of which would
touch every heart to the depths. Her children of whom
there were now eight, were all living. Her eldest son was
eighteen years of age, and with a daughter perhaps twelve,
she, with boys of all ages around her might well hope to
one day see her toil repaid by a home of comfort and plenty.
Here her husband planted orchards again, the land was
fertile, and the location full of beauty. The river with its
crystal flow, the islands, and the hills, where the dark
shadow of the evergreen trees cast a veil of tenderness over
the June verdure of the other trees, that growing among the
pines and hemlocks must have charmed the woman whose
poetic nature has been a rich heritage to her children, and
her children's children. Grandfather was a religious man.
He was a true disciple of the Reformer and phinalthropist,
John Wesley. One of his 'first radical stands was for total
abstinence in regard to whiskey, which was so commonly
indulged in at that day. Neither would he provide it for
men who worked for him, nor for the "loggings", or "rais-
ings", where it was at all times so freely provided else-
where. The same year that he came to Hickorytown, on
June 22, 1818, Jane, second daughter and eighth child was
born. Though in reality, in good circumstances yet a
pioneer life, of necessity in these early days, must have en-
tailed many hardships, and deprivations of the comforts
of life. Once when I was arranging the pillows for her
daughter, my aunt Mary who was an invalid, said in thank-
ing me, "I am very comfortable. I often think of my dear
mother. When sister Jane was born she lay with her sad-
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die for a pillow. She was so proud spirited; she spun flax
and wool, she sewed, knit, wove and cooked that her chil-
dren might be well provided for. She entertained company,
sang hymns, prayed for her children, and taught them that
the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom." One
of the sweet memories of our family is the legacy of love
and respect with which her children kept green the hal-
lowed records of her patient life. In 1821, another daugh-
ter, Rebecca, was born, and worn with the many years of toil
this tired mother slipped away from earth into eternal rest.
Small wonder it was that the proud spirit and weary body
so soon parted company. Her last resting place is in the
green and quiet family burying ground at West Hickory.
Rev. David Kinnear, her nephew, in writing of her says:
"She was a woman of a remarkable religious nature, sensi-
tive, gentle yet full of spirit. Was very handsome, tall,
fair, with abundance of waving light curling hair of a pe-
culiar sunny tint, so unusual, that the beauty of her hair
and her handsome blue eyes were always mentioned."
Jane Young Barnes, June Siggins Wheeler, and a number
of others of her grand children have inherited these char-
acteristic features. Her son George who was twelve years
of age at the time of her death retained such vivid memories
of her beauty and spirituality, that he always spoke of her
as "My Angel Mother," or "My Sainted Mother", and noth-
ing pleasing him or his brothers more than to trace in
their daughters a likeness to their mother. Here is a copy
of her Church letter sent her eight years after her remov-
al to Western Pennsylvania :
"This is to certify that the bearer, Jean Siggins, is
an acceptable member of the Methodist Society, North-
umberland Circuit, August 27, 1808."
JOHNSTON DUNHAM.
Your chronicler must of necessity use the personal pro-
noun, as the material for what is to follow is largely drawn,
not only from the recollections of others but from her own
personal memories. Realising that such knowledge with
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the passing of this generation would be lost, not only to
the family but to the church and world, I have tried to
present a true picture of a man, the nobility of whose char-
acter, his assembled descendents may well emulate. I can
hardly realize that at my first memory of my honored
grandfather, which began as early as two years of age, that
he must have then been seventy years of age, but it is so.
Among my first memories of him is one of the family sit-
ting before the great fireplace, where huge logs fed the
flames that were roaring up the black throat of the chim-
ney; and of step-grandmother cooking, and baking before
the fire, where on the ample hearth she had drawn the
glowing coals. There was a cooking stove in the same room,
but habit is strong, and the old way seemed best. Here
they would gather when the day's work was done, where
we heard him tell of the early times, and hear the Bible
read, night and morning, he, after the manner of the pa-
triarch offered prayer. His son, my uncle Isaac, who lived
at home used to sing grand old hymns for him.
Mrs. Jane Ferry has furnished some notes that are fit-
thing here — she says — "My first recollection of grandfather
is when having family prayers, they all stood and sang,
"Lord in the morning Thou shalt hear my voice ascending
high.'' And so they began the day. At this time the family
consisted of grand-father, grandmother (his second wife)
aunt Mary, aunt Jane, uncles Isaac and James. I have
heard him say he remembered sitting on his mother's knee
to hear John Wesley preach." Her sister Mary says that
once when grandfather was with his father at one of Mr.
Wesley's meetings, being frightened at the noise, he ran
to his father who was at the altar, and clung to him crying,
when John Wesley laid his hand on his little head saying,
"See the little lad lays hold of the altar." In old Asbury
Chapel grandfather always began his testimony, or ex-
hortations with, "My dear children," and always said "I am
glad I am a Methodist" I also remember his goodness to
me as a child, and that neither he nor grandmother ever
spoke an unkind word to me, nor do I remember of ever
hearing him speak unkindly to any person. He used to tell
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that when their Catholic neighbors in Ireland used to quar-
rel, they called his father in as peace maker. They were
Episcopalians until they heard Mr. Wesley preach. Grand-
father was a born aristocrat, and had fine ideas of society,
and displayed good taste in all his belongings and in the
planning of all his buildings. Grandfather Siggins was
married the second time to Pheobe Dawson, a woman con-
siderably older than himself, who is the grandmother I
recollect. If the elasticity, vivacity, and devotion of her
later years are an index to her younger days, I would say
she was at the time of her marriage a very handsome little
lady. She died at the age of ninety four years, and then
her face scarcely showed a wrinkle. She was a most de-
voted wife ; her love and respect for her husband were most
marked, and in all things where he was concerned, she was
most unselfish. His comfort and wishes were the law of
her life. They were very gentle and kindly in their man-
ner to each other; and in my memory I see them sitting
each by their window in the old home, — On Sunday he with
the big red Bible, she with Baxter's Saint's Rest, the
sanctity of the Sabbath was to him so reasonable a service,
that he read no secular papers on that day. At Hickory-
town he was instrumental in having a little meeting house
built, and also a school house. "He organized debating
clubs, and encouraged his sons to take part thus training
them to that which was to them a most useful acquire-
ment." He built for himself at the place in Hickory
sometime in 1830, a home which had the distinction of be-
ing one of the first and best frame houses built in the coun-
try, containing six rooms, with many windows, and a wide
porch the whole length of the house facing the river and
the east. Here on summer evenings, the family rested with
the river and hills to keep them company. The river was
then the great highway. Steamboats, rafts, keelboats and
other craft, held an unfailing source of interest for all.
During the spring and summer freshets, thousands of fam-
ilies floated by to new homes further west. It was consid-
ered a fitting courtesy demanded by the interest of the oc-
casion for those on shore to call and ask them where they
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were bound ; the answer varied between "Western Reserve"
"Indiana", "Ohio" or "Illinois". Household goods, cows,
horses, wagons and other possessions were distributed over
the rafts until they looked like a section of a farm afloat.
Grandfather could tell us wonderful stories of Ireland, and
sang songs, part of which were Irish words. He often held
two of us upon his knees while he told us stories of the
famine in Ireland and of the cruel officers who came for
the rent, taking their property, the pig, or cow to the an-
guish of the poor cottagers. I do not remember of hear-
ing him speak of any want among his friends, but always
of their being comfortable. George Siggins was a tall no-
ble looking man, one whose face bore the imprint of a strong
and kindly soul. He had dark eyes, his head was bald, but
with a circle of soft curling gray hair that hung around
his neck. His grandson, John Siggins of Tidioute con-
tributes his estimate and recollections, saying — "George
Siggins was a large, strong, muscular man about six feet
tall, and well proportioned. He had some of the Irish ac-
cent with his speech. He was very much devoted to the
Church. I hold the original license given him in Centre
county, about 1800, to exhort and conduct religious meet-
ings in the Methodist Episcopal church. I have his old
saddlebags that he used when he traveled as he did by horse
back. In later years he had a horse and buggy and he and
his wife would drive on Friday to Asbury Chapel, Tion-
esta, or starting earlier in the week, would drive to Frank-
lin, Warren, or Youngsville, or some other place, when
they would attend Quarterly meeting and enjoy the hos-
pitality of their friends and relatives. Grandfather was a
man who enjoyed the pursuit of a farmer his father be-
fore him desired all his sons to possess a farm, and he in
turn had the same ambition. He has the credit of plant-
ing four orchards, the last, at Hickory, was a very large
one. Many of the trees remain standing and bear fruit at
the present time. The tree planting is inherited by the
writer (John Siggins) as well as by some others in the
family. Grandfather had a silk hat for state occasions,
and a curly maple cane turned with a knob, and painted a
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dark red. One he used every day was a "staff", a natural
crook that he used for years. The following is a copy of
the license spoken of which however bears date 1810:
"Eyre" Circuit — which is I presume the old style of spell-
ing Erie Circuit.
"Know all men by these presents that George Sig-
gins is authorized to exhort in the Methodist Episcopal
church so long as his walk and conversation corre-
sponds with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Given under
my hand this sixth day of October, in the year A. D.
1810.
JOSHUA MONROE.
Minister in Charge.
George Siggins was a great reader, so was uncle Isaac.
Uncle took the "New York Tribune" and the "Philadelphia
Post". They also had the National Magazine, issued by the
Methodist publishing house. It was a work of genuine lit-
erary worth. The great galaxy of literary stars that shone
for us in the central years of this century were contribu-
tors. It is a treat to read a number of it to day. Grand-
father had the "New York Advocate" from the first copy
issued. He subscribed for the history of Methodism writ-
ten by the Rev. Dr. Abel Stevens who passed away in De-
cember — 97 having lived more than four score years. As
the different volumes came from the press — there were five
of them — he read them with absorbing interest. The last
volume came out the year grandfather died, but was read
by him with great interest and delight. Each day he
would read up the news of the world. The Crimean war
and the Civil war were followed by him with deep interest.
Uncle Isaac, uncle William or my father enjoyed a visit
with so well informed a man, and the news of the day was
always faithfully reviewed by them. The library in grand-
father's house was a priceless treasure to us all. There
were Biographies, Histories. Travels, Philosophy, Poetry,
Romance, Fairy Stories and a book of Bible Stories, all by
standard authors, purchased from those early benefactors
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of our country, the Methodist preachers, who, following
the example and plan of John Wesley, furnished good books
to the people, carrying them in their saddle bags on their
long and perilous journeys ; books so well bound that they
are well preserved to day. I have several books myself
that my father bought from these saddle bags. George
Siggins and Thomas Dawson both early representatives
of Methodism divided between them the privilege for many
years of entertaining the preachers, after their toilsome
circuit of hundreds of miles, making the trip perhaps once
in six or seven weeks. Mr. Henry Kinnear, one of the first
Methodists, met the Rev. Noah Fiddler of the Erie Cir-
cuit, Baltimore Conference, (the first conference), and re-
quested him to visit the converts in Venango county, Pa.,
which he did in 1801, preaching in William Kinnears house
and organizing the first class composed of George and Jane
Siggins, James Dawson, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth, Thomas
and Hannah Dawson, James Dawson, Jr., Pheobe Dawson,
William and Mary Kinnear and the widow Allender.
George Siggins was their leader. This was the first class
organized in Venango county, and where the Methodist
church was first established in the county. The first quar-
terly meeting in this region was held in Crawford county
in a barn. I have some items of interest given by my aunt,
Mrs. Elizabeth Allender, a daughter of my grandfather
Thomas Dawson. "This meeting was held at Gravel Run
near Waterford in 1802 — George Siggins and Isaac Conelly
his brother-in-law walked all the way there to attend the
meeting". Andrew Kinnear was present at this meeting.
He had married a daughter of Rev. William Young. David
was the son of Andrew Kinnear, is the one to whom we are
indebted for the chronicles of the family so carefully gath-
ered more than fifty years ago. Sarah Hood Siggins, moth-
er of George Siggins, lived with him when his wife died and
for a year or two after he married his second wife. Mrs.
Allender, who lived about three and a half miles from
Hickorytown, says that at the age of seventy years this
woman would "spin her dozen a day", and so active at that
age that she would walk to her place in the morning, spend
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the day and return to Hickorytown in the evening. She
was born in 1750, died in 1835, in her 86th year. She pos-
sessed a strong christian character. I have the remnant of
a book of Bible stories from which she read to her grand-
children as they sat around her. I remember often of
hearing my father speak of the teachings of this good
woman, and of her reading to them from this book. She
stood a faithful representative for the church and the re-
ligion of her choice, bringing as she did the teaching of
John Wesley in all its scriptural simplicity and power into
her pioneer home. Her life and that of her pure spirited
husband are like ointment poured forth, the fragrance of
which comes to us today as we recall this precious heritage
of their lives.
George Siggins never seemed to tire of his grand chil-
dren. They visited him by the score. Usually there was
one or more of them living in his family. He welcomed all
who came, and his table was always surrounded by some of
them. He was appreciative of every little service. If we
unfastened his shoes and put on his slippers, as grand-
mother had taught us, or beat up the big feather cushion
of his chair, he called us "proper fine girls". The hire of
the laborer was fully paid and the poor shared in his plenty.
He had large orchards. I believe he never sold a bushel of
fruit in his life. The whole country came and carried off
apples by the wagon load. His peaches and grapes he
shared generously with his friends each year. He loved to
see his fruit grow and had very choice trees.
I remember Elder Chapin, who when I was a little girl,
visited my father. He was one of the first pioneers who
travelled the circuit. I had the pleasure once of being en-
tertained in the home of this old minister and his wife in
Westfield, N. Y. They told me many episodes of the early
days, and of the kindness of my two grandfathers and their
families, and especially of my own father and mother in
their old home as young people, The first preacher, as has
been stated, was Noah Fiddler in 1810. Then came Joshua
Monroe, whose authority vested George Siggins with the
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right to exhort and teach the divine ideals of Christian life.
Then there was Jacob Gruber, an eccentric German, of
whom many stories are told. Once when coming to my
grandfather Dawsons, arriving a day or so ahead of their
expectations, he found the family sitting down to supper,
small in variety, but excellent in quality. He asked to re-
turn thanks, which he did by saying, "Lord bless the good
mush, Amen". About fifty years ago, I remember seeing
my grandfather reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The book
was written in 1852, and was lent to him to read, by Mrs.
Hamilton Stowe, whose friendship to him and all his family
was a source of pleasure and comfort. I do not remember
seeing my grandmother reading the book, which she un-
doubtedly did, but do remember hearing my mother and
him discuss the principals set forth in the book. They both
grasped the truth of the divine right of souls to liberty, and
the wrong of human slavery. Out of the pathos of the book
they saw what lead them and many of their grand-daugh-
ters to rejoice in the hope that some day the blot of slavery
would be taken from our country. Being brought up at the
feet of such a man, we were advance guards for the aboli-
tion of slavery and prohibition of strong drink.
Grandfather was contemporary with the history of the
Church, and lived to see it number more than two million
members with almost a century of his country's growth
with the Indians, with pioneer life, and advanced civiliza-
tion, and progress of this mid-century-yea, to see his coun-
try victorious in the contest for human freedom, honored
by all the world, and undivided, in which his loyal soul re-
joiced. He was a true patriot and gave his voice for every
reform that he believed would lead his country on to its
great mission. In 1812, he "and his three brothers respond-
ed to the call, and the early close of the war permitted
their safe return to their families. George Siggins was a
firm friend and admirer of Abraham Lincoln. He grasped
the greatness of the character in this hero in our crisis for
human liberty and gave honor to him, the great Emanci-
pator, far in advance of the day. Grandfather died a few
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weeks before the awful tragedy on the 14th day of April,
when the land was shadowed with the message "Lincoln
is dead," and we all rejoiced that he had been spared a sor-
row.
George Siggins owned a sawmill on West Hickory Creek,
which he ran for two years, when he sold it to Mr. Ball.
James Y. Siggins, his son, afterwards married this man's
daughter, Sarah. Mr. Ball soon after sold this property
and built a mill on Tionesta creek at the place since known
as Balltown. At this mill on Hickory Creek George Sig-
gins planted another orchard. Trees planted seventy years
ago are still living and bearing fruit. At Stewart's Run,
or Pithole, as it was then called, the first place that this
pioneer settled, as well as at others where he lived, these
marks of his benevolence, thrift and enterprise remain.
The query arises, "where did he find the apple trees to
plant?" There is an authentic account of an early bene-
factor of our pioneer days known as "Johnny Apple-Seed,"
who went about like John the Baptist, clothed in coarse
garments, living on wild honey, and the products of the
forest, who travelled thru the wilderness, stopping at in-
tervals, when he would cut the saplings from a small patch
of ground, fencing it with the same, then spading the
ground he would plant a liberal amount of apple seeds
which he carried in a large sack on his back. This he did
in different portions of Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.
The early pioneers used to look for and carefully trans-
plant these trees.
Mrs. Harriet E. Howe.
From the Democratic Vindicator, of Tionesta, Forest
County, Pa., July 21st and 28th, 1898.
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ISAAC CONNELY SlGGINS
(54) Isaac Connely Siggins son of George and Jane
Young Siggins, was born September 17th, 1812 on the
farm settled by his father which was situated on the west
bank of the Allegheny River in Harmony Township. From
his father he inherited many sterling qualities. In those
early days schools were almost unknown — the few that
existed were poorly equipped, hence the Siggins boys, Wil-
liam, George S., Isaac and James, depended almost wholly
on their parents for instruction. But their advancement
was rapid and no opportunity for mental improvement was
neglected. Isaac was possessed of unusually fine intellec-
tual perceptions and was an inveterate reader; he was well
posted on all topics of the day. His judgment was rarely
at fault. It was ever a delight to talk with "Uncle Isaac"
as he was called by the neighbors for there was always
instruction as well as entertainment in these conversations.
His reminiscences of early days when the country was a
wilderness and the Indians still lingered on the outskirts
of the settlements were clear and full of interest. He was
a good representative of this family of sturdy pioneers
whose name was closely identified with the progress and
upbuilding of this section of the country. He often told
his nieces and nephews that his grandmother, Sarah Hood,
was near of kin to Admiral Hood. They were hardy and
intelligent and left a lasting imprint on the younger gen-
eration as they grew up around them. He will long be
remembered and honored as one of the foremost of the
sturdy pioneers of the Upper Allegheny Valley. He died
on the Siggins farm at West Hickory, Pennsylvania, where
most of his life had been spent, Saturday evening, Feb-
ruary 24, 1883.
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LINEAGE.
Thomas Siggins, of Walsingrange, county Wexford, his
son
Matthew Siggins, m. Margaret Codd, their son
Richard Siggins, m. Margaret Sinot, their son
Edward Siggins, of Balla, m. — ■ , their son
Wiliam Siggins, m. Mary Taylor, their son
John Siggins, m. Sarah Hood, their son
(4) GEORGE SIGGINS 3 , b. 1778, in Drumcliff Parish,
Sligo County, Ireland, d. January 17, 1865, in Venango
County, Pa., aged 87. m. 1st, Feburary 18, 1800, in Venan-
go County, Pa., by Rev. David Stephens.
Jane Young, b. 1784, in Sligo County, Ireland, d. March
23, 1821, in Venango County, Pa., (dau. of Rev. William
and Jane (Simpson) Young). He m. 2nd, June 27, 1821,
in Venango County, Pa.
Pheobe Dawson (No-973), she d. Sept. 30, 1860, aged
90 years. Children, all by 1st marriage:
49.* i. JOHN Siggins 4 , b. July 25, 1801, in Centre
County, Pa., d. November 23, 1873, in Ripley,
N. Y. m. Dec. 6, 1825:
Rebecca Dawson, (No.-llOl).
50.* ii. WILLIAM Siggins 4 , b. August 21, 1803, in
Venango County, Pa., d. February 6, 1865, in
Harmony, N. Y., m. 1st;
Madaline Range, no issue; m. 2nd, February 19,
1838;
Jane Hunter (No.-H182), b. August 7, 1817, d.
March 20, 1870.
51. iii. MARY Siggins 4 , b. June 19, 1805, never mar-
ried, d. October 23, 1862, aged 57 years, 5
months, 4 days.
96 SlGGINS AND
52.* iv. NATHANIEL Hood Siggins 4 , b. May 1, 1807,
in Venango County, Pa., d. May 2, 1874, in Har-
mony, N. Y., m. June 7, 1832, in Venango
County.
Emeline Harriet Range, dau. of Lieut. James and
Mary Range.
53.* v. GEORGE Simpson Siggins 4 , b. September 30,
1809, in Venango County, Pa., d. August 20,
1875, in Forest County, Pa., m. April 10, 1842,
by Rev. J. R. Miller.
Rachel Dawson (No.-1113), b. March 25, 1821, d.
March 11, 1888.
54.* vi. ISAAC Connely Siggins 4 , b. September 16,
1812, in Venango County, Pa., never married;
d. February 24, 1883, in West Hickory, Forest
County, Pa.
55.* vii. JAMES Young Siggins 4 , b. March 16, 1815,
in Venango County, Pa., d. May 20, 1894, in
Pleasantville, Venango County, Pa., m. Decem-
ber 20, 1840.
Sarah Ball.
56.* viii. MARGARET Jane Siggins 4 , b. June 22, 1818,
in Venango County, Pa., d. August 26, 1853, in
Monono, Iowa; m. May 4, 1837.
Cyrus Johnson Richardson, b. 1816, in Venango
Co., Pa.
57. ix. REBECCA Siggins 4 , b. December 29, 1820,
d. May 20, 1821, in Venango County, Pa.
(49) JOHN SIGGINS 4 , b. July 25, 1801, in Center
County, Pa. d. November 23, 1873, in Ripley, N. Y., aged
72 years, 3 months and 28 days. m. December 6, 1825, in
Venango County, Pa.
Rebecca Dawson (No.-llOl), b. February 7, 1807; d. June
14, 1863. Children:
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58. i. JANE Young Siggins"', b. December 20, 1826,
in Venango County, Pa., d. January 2, 1904
or 5, in Jamestown, N. Y., aged 78 years, 6
days; m. Captain Sheldon C. Ferry, of James-
town, N. Y. He was a soldier in the Civil War,
she was a member of the Methodist church.
59. ii. GEORGE Siggins 1 , b. May 10, 1828, never
married ; d. January 14, 1852, in Venango Co.,
Pa.
60. iii. ADALINE Siggins 6 , b. July 10, 1830, in Ven-
ango Co., Pa. ; d. July 19, 1884, m. Alfred Pal-
mer.
61. iv. ISAAC Siggins 1 , b. June 6, 1883, in Venango
Co., Pa.; d. October 16, 1905, in Pheonix, Ari-
zona, never married.
62. v. MARCUS Siggins', d. young.
63. vi. OLIVER Siggins 8 , b. November 13, 1835; d.
December 16, 1836.
64. vii. MARY Siggins', b. February 20, 1838 ; never
married, lived until 1912 in Jamestown, N. Y.,
later lived in Hannibal, Mo., with the family
of George S. Parker, she d. July 18, 1917 in St.
Joseph, Mo.
65. viii. PAULINE Siggins 5 , b. August 15, 1840, in
Venango Co., Pa.; d. August 19, 1887; m.
Charles Baird, he d. June, 1887; they had one
son.
66. i. JOHN Paul Baird.
67. ix. SABINA Emeline Siggins"', b. June 6, 1834,
in Venango Co. ; d. June 5, 1908, in Jamestown,
98 SlGGINS AND
N. Y.; m. June 20, 1866 in Venango Co., Pa.,
(by Rev. J. E. Chapin) Daniel Parker. Their
children :
68. i. MAGGIE Parker 8 , b. 1867, d. Jan. 21,
1875, in Dunkirk, N. Y.
69. ii. GEORGE Siggins Parker 6 , b. November
25, 1869 in Dunkirk, N. Y. ; m. in Greenville,
Pa., October 3, 1900, Carolyn Birch Ritter,
b. Nov. 26, 1872 in Cochranton, Pa., living
1918, Hannibal, Mo.
70. iii. MARY Parker 8 , d. aged.
71. iv. ROBERT Kent Parker , b. October 31,
1877, in Ripley, N. Y., has won renown as a
singer in grand opera; his present address
is 173 Maida Dale, London, England, W9.
(1918).
72. x. HELEN Siggins 5 , b. December 31, 1846, in
Venango County, Pa.; d. , 1876
not married.
73. xi. WALTER E. Siggins 5 , b. September 20, 1849,
in Venango County, Pa.; d. February 9, 1895,
in New Mexico. He was a newspaper man.
Other Families 99
YOUNG FAMILY.
John Young 1 , born in county Sligo, Ireland, was a mem-
ber of the Church of England, and very benevolent to the
poor ; he married :
Mary Erwin, a native of the same county, and member
of the same church, who, subsequently became one of the
first Wesleyan Methodists of county Sligo, she was a woman
of strong mind and amiable manners, their home was a
refuge for the Wesleyan preachers in time of their perse-
cution. Children :
Alexander, Robert, James, John (of whom we know noth-
ing further) and William.
William Young, son of John and Mary (Erwin) Young,
was born in county Sligo, May 1, 1756-7, and came to
America in 1791, to join his uncle William Erwin, who had
settled in Pennsylvania some years before; he married in
county Sligo, Jane Simpson, (dau. of John) and four of
his children were born there ; in 1793, his wife and children
came with the family of John Siggins, and joined him in
Pennsylvania, he became a Methodist preacher, and set-
tled in Mercer county, where he died September 24, 1829,
his widow died December 1, 1830. Children:
(4) i.* JANE Young\ b. 1784, in county Sligo, m.
1800, George Siggins, See No.-4.
ii. DINAH Young 3 , b. 1785, in county Sligo, m.
1801, Rev. Andrew Kinnear.*
iii. MARY Young \ b. 1788, in county Sligo, d.
1834, Feb. 21, near New Castle, Pa., unm.
iv.* ELIZABETH Young 5 , b. 1789, in county Sli-
go, m. 1807, George Green.
100 SlGGINS AND
v.* NANCY Young ; , b. 1797, May 25, in Mercer
county, Pa., m. 1820, John Greer.
vi.* WILLIAM Young :; , b. 1799, May 19, in Mer-
cer county, Pa., m. 1823, Rachel Falls.
(For descendants of Rev. Andrew and Dinah (Young)
Kinnear, see The Kinnear's and their Kin, by Emma Sig-
gins White).
Elizabeth Young 3 , b. September 1789, in county Sligo,
Ireland ; d. November 6, 1833, in Mercer county, Pa. ; m.
November 24, 1807, in Mercer county, Pa.
George Green, b. March 22, 1777, son of George and
Ruth Green. Children:
i. WESLEY George Green 4 , b. December 18,
1808, in Huntingdon Co., Pa. ; m. February 23,
1833, Nancy Donaldson, b. 1811, dau. of Isaac
and Nancy Donaldson.
ii. WILLIAM Young Green 4 , b. September 10,
1810, in Huntingdon Co. ; m. February 2, 1833,
Catherine Heasley, dau. of Daniel and Mary
Heasley.
iii. JAMES Pennel Green 4 , b. April 15, 1812, d.
in 1842, in Indiana.
iv. JANE Simpson Green 4 , b. and d. in 1815.
v. SIMPSON Green 4 , b. December 3, 1816, in
Mercer county, Pa.
vi. MARY Ann Green 4 , b. July 7. 1818, d. 1842,
m. Cook.
vii. MARY Young Green 4 , b. December 15, 1820.
viii. JANE Young Green 4 , b. October 13, 1823.
ix. ELIZA Green 4 , b. December 3, 1825.
x. ERWIN Green 4 , b. June 16, 1828.
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xi. JOSEPH Green 1 , b. February 23, 1831.
xii. RUTH Green 4 , b. April 18, 1833.
Nancy Young', b. May 25, 1797, in Centre county, Pa.,
d. August 28, 1842, in Mercer county, Pa., m. November
21, 1820, in Mercer county, Pa.
John Greer, b. March 28, 1798, in Fermanagh county,
Ireland.f Children :
i. WILLIAM Young Greer 4 , b. April 14, 1822,
in Allegheny Co., Pa.
ii. ELIZABETH Hall Greer', b. March 25, 1825,
in Mercer Co., Pa.
iii. SIMPSON Greer 4 , d. April 25, 1829.
William Young 1 , b. May 19, 1799, in Mercer County, Pa.,
d. June 10, 1834, is buried in the New Castle, M. E. Church
Yard, m. October 30, 1823, in Mercer County, Pa.
Rachel Falls, dau. of Henry and Susannah (Kennedy)
Falls, b. November 19, 1801, in Mercer County, Pa., d.
September 5, 1834, is buried in the New Castle, M. E.
Church Yard. Children:
i. HENRY Falls Young 4 , b. September 23, 1824,
in Mercer County, Pa.,Their daughter, Mary
B. Young, was living in 1917, in Bloomington,
Wis.
ii. JANE Simpson Young 4 , b. April 17, 1826, in
Mercer County.
iii. WILLIAM Erwin Young', b. August 30, 1830,
in Mercer County.
iv. SUSAN Kenedy Young 4 , b. February 17,
1832, in Mercer County.
fA more extensive account of John Greer, may be found
in : The Kinnear's and their Kin, by Emma Siggins White.
102 SlGGINS AND
(50) JUDGE WILLIAM SlGGINS 4 , b. August 21,
1803, in Venango county, Pa., d. February 6, 1865, in Har-
mony, N. Y. He was a man of prominence, a staunch
democrat, served as county commissioner and justice of
the peace more than twenty years, and performed many a
marriage ceremony. He m. 1st Magdaline Range, no issue ;
m. 2nd, February 19, 1838 Jane Hunter, (No. H182) ; b.
August 7, 1817, d. March 20, 1870. Children :
74.* i. JUDGE John Siggins 3 , b. February 1, 1839
in West Hickory, married December 6, 1865,
at Orlean, New York, Clarissa Martin Carter,
they were married by Rev. A. P. Ripley, the
Methodist presiding Bishop. The young couple
made a trip to Buffalo and Niagra Falls and
came home by train as far as Irvineton where
they expected to take a boat down the Allegheny
River to Tidioute, there being no terminal rail-
road between these two points at that time and
it was so late in the season that no boats were
running, in order to reach home that night they
procured a skiff and made the trip safely in spite
of the wind and a heavy snow storm, which
made the journey an extremely hazardous one.
The huge ice cakes which filled the river so
hindered their travel that they were five hours
in making the trip, reaching home just at dark.
Most of their married life has been spent in
Tidioute. On the occasion of their Golden Wed-
ding Anniversary, fifty of their friends assem-
bled and celebrated the event by speech mak-
ing, singing and reviewing the happenings of
their fifty useful years of Jife together.
75.* ii. WILLIAM Parker Siggins 6 , b. May 25, 1840,
in West Hickory, Pa., m. September 12, 1864,
Elizabeth Walters.
76. ::: iii. JANE Young Siggins\ b. November 11, 1841,
Other Families 103
in West Hickory, m. September 12, 1866, Wil-
son C. Barnes, of Oneida, N. Y.
77.* iv. GEORGE W. Siggins 5 , b. October 7, 1843, in
West Hickory, m. Melissa Bean.
78.* v. A. JACKSON Siggins 5 , b. June 12, 1845. in
West Hickory, m. October 23, 1875, Emily Neil,
b. Nov. 19, 1856, (dau. of John Neil, b. Feb.
22, 1797, d. June, 1878; and Sarah McCaslin
McCrum, grand dau. of William Neill, b. June
22, 1772; m. May 12, 1796 Jane Jordon, b. April
12, 1773). Children:
79. i. FRANCIS Siggins , b. April 14, 1878, d.
Oct. 17, 1887.
80. ii. ALICE New Siggins 6 , b. Sept. 6, 1881, is
a member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
81. iii. MARY Siggins 6 , b. April 1, 1883, d. Nov.
21, 1897, in West Hickory, at the home of her
parents, at 7 o'clock on Sunday morning
after an illness of one week, lacking a day.
She was born and reared in West Hickory,
and was a child of extremely lovable and
sunny disposition, the sunshine of her home
and the pet of the entire community. A
child whose every impulse seemed for the
good and comfort of those about her, and
whose lovable nature and pretty ways, had
made her a notable figure among her circle
of companions.
82. vi. Dr. JAMES Buchanan Siggins\ of Oil City.
Pennsylvania, was born in West Hickory, Pa.,
January 12, 1857, he was educated at the local
schools, Edinboro Normal and Allegheny Col-
lege, and was graduated from the Medical De-
partment of the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, "Class of '83"; he was president of his
104 SlGGINS AND
class and is now president of the Alumni Asso-
ciation.
His medical practice was commenced in West
Hickory and at Tidioute, later he removed to
Tionesta and in 1896 settled at Oil City, Venan-
go county and has since carried on a large and
successful practice; in 1915 he was given a de-
gree from the Allegheny College as a tribute to
his successful career.
He is a member of the American Medical As-
sociation, the Venango County Medical Society
and the Oil City Medical Club ; in 1890 he was
offered the nomination for the United States
house of representatives, but declined; in 1911
he was elected mayor of Oil City and served
four years, and introduced many city reforms,
is actively engaged in the production of oil and
has successfully operated several leases.
He was married June 10, 1885, to
Susan Virginia Hall, b. November 19, 1856; (dau.
of Joseph and Rachel (McGrew) Hall, of Steu-
benville, Ohio). Children:
83. i. VIRGINIA Siggins 6 , b.
84. ii. MARY Alice Siggins 6 , b.
85. vii. LEWIS Cass Siggins 5 , was born November
20, 1850, in West Hickory, Pa., he was well
known in the upper oil country having spent
most of his life there, he came to Oil City in
1883 and became a member of the Oil Exchange,
he afterward accepted a position with the
American Express Company which he filled five
years, resigning on account of ill health which
culminated in his death in 1889. He married
in 1880:
Ida Hill, they had no children; he was a regular
attendant of the Baptist Church and a Knight
Templar.
DR. JAMES B. SIGGINS.
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86. viii. ISAAC Plummer Siggins r ', b. May 1, 1848, d.
February 7, 1887, aged 38 yrs., 9 mo., 6 days,
at the home of A. Jackson Siggins, in West
Hickory, Pa.
87. ix. FLORENCE Siggins 6 , b. October 13, 1851, d.
April 17, 1872.
88. x. SARAH Marilla Siggins', b. August 1, 1853,
d. May 11, 1879, at the home of A. Jackson
Siggins, in Hickory, Pa.
89. xi. ALEXANDER Hood Siggins, Lawyer; Grad.
Allegheny College, b. December 28, 1858, d.
August 20, 1885, in Kansas City, Missouri, m.
May Lummis of Kansas City, Missouri. They had
one son who died young.
Here's to the Siggins tree,
Long may it wave ;
May it grow on its branches
The true and the brave.
May it flourish and prosper
And live ever more;
May the fruit that it groweth
Be good to the core.
May each branch be noble,
And thus shall we see
Both honor and fame,
On the old Siggins Tree.
A. H. Siggins, (No.-89).
West Hickory, Pa.
Aug. 29, 1880.
106 SlGGINS AND
JOSEPH HALL
Joseph Hall was born in Smithfield, Ohio, March 18,
1827, he was a son of Clarkson Hall, his mother was a
native of Ireland and came to America in 1808 ; his grand
father Reuben Hall, was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War and in the war of 1812. Joseph Hall was two years
of age when his parents settled at Wintersville, where he
lived until 1863, at the age of nineteen he was a school
teacher, but learning the carpenters trade with his father,
he followed this vocation during early manhood, he served
two terms as Clerk of Cross Creek Township. In 1855 he
was elected Justice of the Peace, and served three years.
In 1858, for the purpose of fitting himself for the duties
of United States Claim Attorney, he studied law, was
licensed as an Attorney in 1861, and acted in that capacity
up to the time of his death, he was the oldest claim attor-
ney in the country and certainly the most successful. He
located in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1863, in 1872 was elected
a member of the School Board, serving seven years, during
four of which he acted as clerk, he took much pride in the
school property and it was during his term of office that
shade trees were planted and beautiful lawns were culti-
vated on the school grounds, he taking the lead in this
work which stands to-day a monument to his taste. He
married November 19, 1852, Rachel McGrew, a native of
Wayne Township, a daughter of Joseph B. McGrew, a form-
er prominent citizen. Three children were born to them:
Homer S. Hall, of Pittsburg, Pa., Jennie Hall, wife of Dr.
James Buchanan Siggins, of Oil City, Pa., and Mary Alice
Hall, wife of Mr. Orion Siggins, of West Hickory, Pa. Mr.
Hall enjoyed a lucrative practice and obtained pensions for
more old soldiers, perhaps, than any other attorney in
Eastern Ohio. By his strict integrity he won the confi-
Other Families 107
dence of his clients and through his energetic effort many
old soldiers received government bounty who otherwise
would have been destitute. Everybody knew Joseph Hall,
he was liked by the people for his kindly disposition and
companionable nature, he was also intelligent and enter-
taining in conversation, was devoted to his family and felt
keenly the separation from his daughters. At the time of
his death he was making arrangements to move to Tidioute,
Pa., to be near them. He and his wife were looking for-
ward with much pleasure to the time they would be with
their daughters. They were regular attendants and sup-
porters of the Hamlin Methodist Episcopal Church. Joi-
eph Hall will be greatly missed in this community where
he was so well known and respected, (d. 1896).
Mrs. Rachel E. Hall died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Orion Siggins, (No. 182), of West Hickory, Pa., at
5 o'clock Saturday morning. She was born May 27, 1833,
at Smithfield, Ohio, and has a birthright at the Friends
Meeting House of that place. Much of her life was spent
at Steubenville, Ohio, where the death of her husband took
place twenty-one years ago. The funeral took place at
West Hickory, Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock and inter-
ment was held at Steubenville.
108 SlGGINS AND
JUDGE JOHN SlGGINS
(74) Hon. John Siggins'', son of William and Jane
(Hunter) Siggins, was born February 1st, 1839, at the
home farm in Harmony Township, Forest County, Penn-
sylvania, which is now owned and farmed by his brother,
A. Jackson Siggins.
He was the eldest child of a family of eight boys and
three girls; his father being in poor health, he at the age
of fourteen was doing a man's work, and was practically
in charge of the farm.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, he and his brother
William P., were the only sons who were old enough to
enlist, and as William P. did enlist as a volunteer, it was
necessary that he remain at home to look after the welfare
of the family; he was twice drafted but rejected on ac-
count of an ankle he had fractured in his younger days;
he early realized that his education was not sufficient to
enable him to meet the battles of life. He obtained his
father's consent to leave the farm for a time, and attend the
Select school taught by A. J. Fleming and the District
School taught by Samuel Fertig, at Stewart's Run.
On January 1st, 1864, he first became engaged in the
mercantile business in the village of Steam Mill and in the
fall of that year removed to a store building he had bought
at West Hickory, in 1871 he removed to Tidioute where he
continued in the mercantile business until 1895 when he re-
tired to engage in other pursuits.
While at Steam Mill he met Miss Clarissa Carter, who
afterward became his wife; she was a daughter of Joseph
Trumbull and Olive (Fuller) Carter, and was born April
29, 1845, at Olean, N. Y. They were married at the home
JUDGE JOHN SIGGINS.
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Other Families 109
of her brother, Almond F. Carter, December 6th, 1865,
by the Rev. A. P. Ripley, the Presiding Elder of the Meth-
odist Church in that district, they are the parents of two
sons and four daughters.
Mr. Siggins filled many local offices until 1905 when he
was elected Associate Judge of Warren county which office
he has held during the last twelve years; he is an active
member of the Methodist church and is at this time presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees of the church at Tidioute ;
he is a member of Temple Lodge Number 412, F. & A. M..
having joined the order while living in West Hickory.
Upon the occasion of the retirement of Judge John Sig-
gins from the Warren County Bench, Jan. 7, 1917, after
twelve years of active service, having served with three
Presidents, and five Associate Judges, in behalf of his
associate members of the bar, Judge Edward S. Lindsay
presented him with a handsome silver service. The presen-
tation remarks were highly complimentary and voiced the
great esteem in which the recipient was held by his friends
and fellow r Judges.
(74) JUDGE JOHN SIGGINS', of Tidioute, Pennsyl-
vania; was born February 1, 1839, married December 6,
1865, at Olean, New York.
Clarissa Martin Carter, born April 29, 1865, at Olean;
(See Carter Family). Children:
90. i. KATE Jane Siggins", b. March 24, 1868, at
West Hickory, m. October 9, 1890, at Tidioute,
Pa.
Leopold Paulus Moore, b. June 20, 1867, in Phila-
delphia, son of Leopold and Helen (Paulus)
Moore.
(Mr. Moore was appointed in 1916, superin-
tendent of the United States Post Office, "some
where in France".)
91. i. HELEN Siggins Moore 7 , b. August 12,
1891, in Tidioute.
110 SlGGINS AND
92. ii. CARL Paulus Moore 7 , b. April 21, 1893, in
Philadelphia.
93. iii. FRANCIS Earl Moore 7 , b. Jan. 2, 1897 ; d.
Feb. 27, 1897.
94. iv. LEOPOLD Paulus Moore 7 , b. July 17, 1898.
95. v. JOHN Siggins Moore 7 , b. Nov. 29, 1899, d.
Sept. 29, 1900.
96. vi. CALVIN Carter Moore 7 , b. Nov. 24, 1901.
97. vii. MARION Virginia Moore 7 , b. April 6, 1904.
98. vii. KATHERYN Isabelle Moore 7 , b. April 19,
1906.
99. viii. THEODORE R, Moore 7 , b. Feb. 22, 1909.
100. ii. IDA B. Siggins 6 , b. April 1, 1870, at West Hick-
ory.
101. iii. CLARA Carter Siggins 6 , b. August 25, 1876; m.
July 9, 1901, Edgar Warren Stebbins, of Rip-
ley, N. Y. ; b. 1874, in Sherman, N. Y., a son of
Hiram and Jeanette (Anderson) Stebbins. (Mrs.
Stebbins is a member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.)
102. iv. FLORENCE Evelyn Siggins , b. September 23,
1879; m. September 1, 1906, in Tidioute, Pa.
Louis Francis Erricson, of Ridgeway, Pa. Children:
103. i. RALPH Louis Ericson 7 , b. September 20,
1908.
104. ii. FRANCIS Siggins Ericson 7 , b. October 8,
1911.
105. v. JOHN Siggins, Jr. t; , b. August 11, 1881, in Tidi-
oute; m. September 14, 1907, in Franklin, Pa.,
Mary Elizabeth Allen; b. April 2, 1883; daughter
of James Rankin and Mary Melissa (Moore)
Allen.
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John Siggins, Jr., (No. 105), of Tidioute, Pa., County
solicitor, has announced himself as a candidate for the Re-
publican assembly nomination, subject to the May primar-
ies. So far Mr. Siggins is the only candidate on either ticket
to make his intentions known, although it is probable he
will be opposed for the nomination since he has given out
an interview stating that he is for the "Dry" forces. In
this he says if elected he will aid in every possible way to
further the passage of the local option law that was before
the last legislature and will probably be presented again."
From the following it will be seen he was a successful
candidate :
"John Siggins, Jr., Warren County's representative in the
General Assembly, was assigned to seat No. 13 in the As-
sembly room. This is located in the first row and being al-
most directly in front of the speaker's desk, is one of the
best in the House. 'Aren't you a little superstitious regard-
ing the hodoo number?' was asked of Mr. Siggins. 'No, sir,'
came the reply, 'I took out my marriage license on Friday
the 13th, and I've never regretted it,' he answered with a
laugh."
He is now (in 1918) a candidate for State Senator from
the 48th District. He was appointed in 1917 as agent for
the United States Government in matters pertaining to
exemptions.
106. vi. RALPH Curtis Siggins , b. June 25, 1886, in
Tidioute; m. June 26, 1911, in Corydon, Pa.,
Louise Gertrude Clawson; b. February 20, 1891;
daughter of Charles Hamilton and Rhoda J.
(Smith) Clawson.
Their son Ralph Curtis Siggins, Jr. 7 , was born October
31, 1913, in Russell, Pa.
112 SlGGINS AND
CARTER FAMILY.
"The early Carters, like most pioneer builders of a com-
monwealth, were farmers.
They were kind-hearted and public-spirited, because they
were often compelled to ask favors, and they realized that
there was strength in union.
The early records show the Carters of those days to have
been prominent in all matters of public interest; the di-
vision of land, and laying out of roads, the building of meet-
ing houses, the founding of churches, and the establish-
ment of schools were entrusted to them. Many also were
active in military organizations."
107. REV. THOMAS Carter 1 , was born 1610, and grad-
uated at St. John's College, Cambridge, Eng-
land, with the degree of B. A. in 1629, and Mas-
ter of Arts in 1633. He came from St. Albans,
Herefordshire, Eng., in the "Planter," embark-
ing April 2, 1635.
He came ostensibly as a servant of George Giddings, be-
cause of the difficulty of obtaining leave to emigrate.
On his arrival in this country he was admitted an in-
habitant of Dedham, Mass., in September, 1636. He was
then a student for the ministry. Subsequently he removed
to Watertown, Mass., and was ordained the first minister of
the church at Woburn, Mass., November 22, 1642. His
death occurred September 5, 1684. He preached his first
sermon there December 4, 1641, and upon his ordination
was presented with a house built for his use.
His salary was fixed at eighty pounds annually, one-
fourth in silver and the remainder in the necessaries of life
Other Families 113
at the current price. In 1674 twenty cords of wood were
given him annually in addition. He performed all the duties
of his office as pastor for thirty-six years unaided. After-
wards Rev. Jabez Fox became his assistant and remained
with Dr. Carter until the end of his life.
Prior to 1640, he married Mary Dalton, who died March
28, 1687. His children were :
Samuel, b. August 8, 1640; m. 1672, Eunice Brooks, and
d. at Groton, Mass., 1693. Judith, Theophilus, Abigail, De-
borah, Timothy and Thomas.
Thomas Carter, youngest child of Rev. Thomas and Mary
(Dalton) Carter, b. June 8, 1655, at Woburn; was a hus-
bandman and proprietor, in his father's right of consider-
able land in that town.
He married Margery, daughter of Francis Whitmore. of
Cambridge, in 1682. She d. October 5, 1754. Their chil-
dren were: Mary, Thomas*, Eleazer, Daniel, Ebenezer and
Ezra.
(From Genealogical and Family History of the State of
New Hampshire, pp. 1753-54.)
Francis Whitmore, of Cambridge, m. about 1648, Isabel
Park. She d. 31 March, 1665, and he m. Margaret Harty.
His children were: Elizabeth, b. 2 may, 1649; m. Daniel
Markham 3 Nov., 1669. Francis, b. Oct. 12, 1650; John,
b. Oct. 1, 1654; Samuel, b. May 1, 1658; Abigail, b. July 3,
1660, m. Wilcox; Sarah, b. March 7, 1662, m. Wm.
Locke ; Margery, bpt. Mar. 27, 1664, m. THOMAS CARTER ;
Hannah, bpt. Feb. 16, 1667, d. young; Hannah, b. Feb. 9.
1668; Frances, b. Mar. 3, 1671, m. Jonathan Thompson:
Thomas, Joseph, living in 1691, perhaps m. Mary Kendall,
of Woburn Feb. 13, 1698-9, and d. about 1720.
Francis Whitmore, the father, was a tailor ; resided sev-
eral years in the present city, but subsequently near the
line between Menot and the Farms."
114 SlGGINS AND
(History of Cambridge, Mass., pp. 684-85.) Rev. Thomas
Carter, of Woburn, was a son of Rev. Thomas Carter, of
Suffolk County, Eng., whose will was dated August, 1625,
proved October 1st, 1625, and is on file at Bury, St. Ed-
monds."
108. THOMAS Carter 2 , Rev. Thomas', b. June 6, 1655, in
Woburn, Mass.; m. in 1682, at Cambridge, Mass.
Margery Whitmore, bpt. March 27, 1664, Cam-
bridge, Mass.; d. Oct. 5, 1734.
109. THOMAS Carter 3 , Thomas-, Rev. Thomas 1 , b. June
13, 1686; m. 1st.,
Abigail Locke, she d. April 10, 1729, leaving five
children, m. 2nd:
Sarah Gilbert; they had eight children, the eldest
being:
110. CAPT. JOSEPH Carter 4 , Thomas', Thomas 2 , Rev.
Thomas 1 . ; b. September 13, 1731, Hebron, Conn. ;
d. August 26, 1824, Warren, Conn. ; m. March
9, 1758:
Ruth Curtis b. 1739, in Warren, and died there in
1807.
He was a private in the French and Indian Wars, and a
Captain in the 13th Reg. Militia at New York 1774; also
Captain in the 13th Reg. September, 1779, at Peekskill ; two
of his brothers were also officers ; he was a Representative
from Kent County 1777, 1778, 1779.
They had six children, the fourth of whom was:
111. BARYALLAI Carter 5 , Capt. Joseph 4 , Thomas', Thom-
as 2 , Rev. Thomas 1 , b. October 2, 1766, Warren,
Conn.; d. April 23, 1856, Darien, N. Y. ; m. 1st
and had one son, Charles Carter ;
m. 2nd Mary Crary; b. Danbury, Conn., Mar. 5,
1773 ; a dau. of James and Esther (Stone) Crary.
Their son :
Other Families 115
112. JOSEPH Trumbull Carter", b. September 13, 1799,
Warren, Conn. ; d. November 29, 1847, Olean, N.
Y. ; m. June 16, 1826, in Ashford, N. Y.
Olive Fuller, b. April 7, 1807, in Orwell, Vt.; d.
Sept. 8, 1856, Olean, N. Y. Their daughter:
113. CLARISSA Martin Carter 7 , b. April 29, 1845, Olean,
N. Y. ; m. December 6, 1865, in Olean, N. Y.
(74) JUDGE JOHN Siggins, of Tidioute, Pa.
116 SlGGINS AND
THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF WILLIAM PARKER
SlGGINS AND ELIZABETH WALTERS,
HIS WIFE.
On November 9th, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Siggins, of West
Hickory, celebrated the fiftieth ■ anniversary of their mar-
riage, on which happy occasion there were present nearly
a hundred guests, among them were seven of their sons and
daughters, and twelve grandchildren. The generous and
cordial hospitality of the home put everyone in the happiest
humor, and the occasion was one of exceptional pleasure.
A poem entitled "Our Golden Wedding Day," and written
for the occasion by Rev. G. W. Fuller, was read, and prayer
was offered by the Rev. Mr. Mcintosh. Much interest was
shown in Mr. Siggins' mementoes of war time, among them
was his honorable war record. Two pictures of him as a
brave young soldier hung on the walls, but what aroused
the warmest interest was a miniature of the girl he left
behind him when he went into the army, and which he had
carried with him during all three years service. In a
tangible way both guests and hosts fared well. The former
were served a generous dinner garnished with lovely gold
colored roses, while the latter were made happy by gifts
ranging from golden chrysanthemums to gold of the realm,
and a fine kitchen cabinet presented by the seven children.
Many other gifts gave evidence of the kind regard of friends
and neighbors. Of the children and grandchildren of Mr.
and Mrs. Siggins the following were present: Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. Agnew, Miss Ethel Agnew, Clarence Agnew, Mrs. W.
W. Siggins and son Floyd, of West Hickory ; Mr. Isaac Sig-
gins and son Leon, of Kellettville, Pa.; F. E. Siggins of
Clarksburg, W. Va.; Mrs. J. K. Young and children, Anna,
Floyd W. and John Kay, of Conneautville, Pa. ; Mrs. F. W.
Shaw and son Paul Willard, of McKeesport, Pa.; Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Carson and children, Goldie, Lewis and Josephine,
WILLIAM PARKER SIGGINS. ELIZABETH (Walters) SIGGINS.
(75)
Taken Before Their Golden Wedding.
Other Families 117
of Brownsville, Pa. ; Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Siggins, of Home-
stead, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kennedy and two sons,
Edward and Willard, great grandchildren, of West Hickory,
Pa. The out of town guests were as follows: Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Hood, Mrs. R. L. Haslet, of Tionesta ; Miss Ida Sig-
gins, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Siggins, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Turner,
Mrs. John Myers, Miss Mary Hastings, of Tidioute ; Mrs.
W. H. Ravenscroft, Denver, Col.; Mrs. W. S. Ravenscroft,
Ridgway, Pa.; Mrs. Jane Y. Siggins Barnes, Ripley, N. Y. ;
Miss Eliza McCrea, Eagle Rock, Pa. ; Mrs. E. Harriet Howe,
Kansas City, Mo. ; Mr. and Mrs. John Siggins, Warren, Pa. ;
Dr. Jas. B. Siggins, Miss Mary Alice Siggins, Oil City, Pa.
Five of those present on Monday also witnessed the first
wedding, they were Mrs. Jane Siggins Barnes, Mr. John
Siggins, Mr. A. J. Siggins and Mrs. John Myers. Everyone
remarked the spirit of sincerity and good feeling which
prevailed. The pleasure of old and young in greeting each
other, and the joy of old friends reunited, was good to see.
But best of all was the happiness of Mr. and Mrs. Siggins
surviving so many years of wedded life, and the pleasant
satisfaction of a united family.
William P. Siggins, one of the oldest and most highly re-
spected citizens of Forest county, died suddenly at his home
in West Hickory at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, Oct. 15,
1917, of heart disease, aged 77 years and 5 months. Mr.
Siggins was born on May 15, 1840, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Siggins, and has been a life-long resident of this
county. On Aug. 6, 1861, he enlisted in the United States
service and was discharged at the expiration of his term on
Sept. 20, 1864, after three years of gallant and noble service.
Following is the war record of Mr. Siggins:
He enlisted August 6, 1861, from Forest county, Pa., and
was mustered into the United States service at Harrisburg,
as a private to serve for three years in Company G, 83rd
Regiment, Pa., Volunteer Infantry, under Captains D. S.
Knox, Geo. Stowe, and M. G. Corey; Colonels John W. Mc-
Clane, S. Vincent, and S. Woodard. The regiment left the
state for Washington, D. C, on Sept. 18, of the same year,
118 SlGGINS AND
and was on duty at Washington, D. C, until March, 1862,
moved to the Virginia Peninsula March 10, 1862, attached
to the 3rd brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the
Potomac till May, 1862, then the 5th corps, Army of the
Potomac. He participated in the following engagements:
Reconnoissance to Big Bethel, Va., March 30, 1862; War-
wick Road, April 5, 1862; Siege of Yorktown, April 5th to
May 1st, 1862; Hanover Court House May 26, 1862; wound-
ed in chest, Seven Days Battle, June 25 to July 1st, 1862;
Battle of Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862; Gainesville,. June
27, '62; Savage Station June 29, '62; Malvern Cliff, June 30,
'62 ; Malvern Hill, July 1st, '62 ; Bull Run, August 30, '62 ;
Antietam, Md., September 17, '62; Shepherd's town Ford,
September 19, '62; Fredricksburg, December 13, '62; Mud
March, January 20-24, '63; Chancellorsville, Va., May 1-4,
'63; Gettysburg, July 1-3, '63; Rappahannock Station, No-
vember 7, '63 ; Mine Run, November 26-28, '63 ; Wilderness,
Va., May 5-7, '64; Laurel Hill, May 8, '64; Spottsylvania,
May 8-21, '64; Assault on the Bloody Angle, May 12, '6,4;
North Anna River, May 23-26, '64 ; Toppotomby, May 28-31,
'64; Bethesda Church, May 30 to June 6, '64; Cold Harbor,
June 1-12, '64; Petersburg, June 15-18, '64; Weldon Rail-
road, June 20-23, '64; Mine Explosion at Petersburg, Va.,
July 30, '64; Weldon Railroad, August 18-21, '64. Honor-
ably discharged September 20th, 1864, at Harrisburg, Pa.,
at expiration of term of service. He was promoted to cor-
poral. He never missed a roll call; was slightly wounded
twice but able after each battle to report and stack arms.
At the close of the war Mr. Siggins returned to farm life
and later engaged as a producer when oil was discovered in
this section. On November 9, 1864, he was married to Miss
Elizabeth Walters, of East Hickory, and by this union nine
children were born, all of whom survive, with the exception
of William, who died in 1912. Until the time of his death
Mr. Siggins was unusually active for one of his years at-
tending personally to all his affairs. On Sunday before his
death he, with his wife and grandson, visited his sister, Mrs.
Jane Barnes, of Ripley, N. Y., making the trip by automo-
Other Families 119
bile. On Monday he was visited by his brother, Dr. J. B.
Siggins, of Oil City, who invited him to walk over to an oil
lease in that vicinity. Mr. Siggins declined, not because of
his physical condition, but because he desired to make some
repairs to his motor car. He died a few hours later. Busi-
ness was suspended and schools closed throughout the after-
noon and hundreds of persons from the surrounding towns
visited the home to pay their last tribute to a very dear
friend. Among those from a distance were Mr. and Mrs.
Perry Smith of Ridgway. Services were conducted at the
grave by members of the G. A. R., of whom only nine re-
main. Interment was in the Siggins family cemetery.
(75). WILLIAM PARKER SIGGINS 5 , b. at the "Old
Homestead" in Venago County, Pa., May 15, 1840; d.
Oct. 15, 1917; m. (by C. S. Richardson, J. P.) November
9, 1864.
Elizabeth Ann Walters, b. March 3, 1846, at Church Hill,
Forest County, Pa. (dau. of Moses and Laura (Barnes)
Walters ; Laura Barnes was born in Vermont) . Children :
114. i. VIOLETTA Ann Siggins , b. in Venago Coun-
ty, Pa., September 21, 1865 ; m. in West Hickory,
Pa.
D. Corbet Agnew, of Kinzu, Pa., they have three
children: Alice, Elthel and Clarence.
115. ii. WILLIAM Walters Siggins", b. in Venago Coun-
ty, Pa., December 11, 1868; d. 1912; m.
Myrtle Burdick, they have one daughter: Eliza-
beth.
116. iii. ISAAC Sigginsf 6 , b. in Forest County, Pa.,
September 15, 1870 ; m. December 23, 1891 :
Minnie Nurse, b. December 21, 1873. Children:
117. i. FRED Eugene Siggins 7 , b. September 10,
1893.
118. ii. LENA Mae Siggins 7 , b. July 29, 1895; d.
Jan. 21, 1911.
120 SlGGINS AND
119. iii. LEON Watson Siggins 7 , b. Jan. 26, 1899,
lives in Kelletville.
120. iv. MARY Alice Siggins 7 , b. December 2, 1905.
121. v. RUTH Isabelle Siggins 7 , b. August 14, 1907.
122. vi. EDITH Minnie Siggins 7 , b. Jan. 12, 1915.
123. iv. FOREST Eugene Siggins", b. June 8, 1873; in
Forest Co., Pa.; m.
May Raider; their children are: Ruth, Manly,
Gail and Fern. They live in Fairview, W. Va.
124. v. BERTHA Bell Siggins, b. in Forest County,
Pa., December 20, 1875 ; m.
John Young; their children are: Clara, Floyd,
Marie, Anna, Grace and John.
125. vi. TRUMAN Collins Siggins 8 , b. in Forest Coun-
ty, Pa., May 24, 1877 ; is an Oil Driller ; lives in
Eldorado, Kans.
126. vii. EMMA May Siggins 6 , b. March 6, 1861, in For-
est Co., Pa., m. Frank Shaw; lives in McKees-
port, Pa.
127. viii. PEARL Alphene Siggins 6 , and
128. ix. EARL Allen Siggins 6 , twins; b. November 20,
1883.
Pearl Alphene Siggins married Frederick Car-
son; their children are: Goldie, Louis, Jose-
phine and Pearl.
Earl Allen Siggins married Julia Elders; no
children. Lives at Homested, Pa.
(76) Jane Young Siggins"', b. November 11, 1841; d.
; m. September 12, 1866.
William Calvin Barnes, of Oneida, N. Y. Their children
were:
129. i. ALICE C. Barnes 6 , b. October 1, 1867 ; m. Sep-
tember 4, 1889.
Other Families 121
Charles B. Clark, of Buffalo, N. Y.
Their children were:
130. i. DONA Virginia Clark 7 , b. June 29, 1890,
at Hendricks, W. Va.
131. ii. MARIE Barnes Clark 7 , b. April 6, 1896, at
New York City, N. Y.
132. ii. BERTHA Anna Barnes", b. May 20, 1871, m.
June 7, 1893,
G. P. Towns, of Buffalo, N. Y. They have one son :
133. i. WILSON Henry Towns 7 , b. Feb. 11, 1890, at
Rutherford, N. J.
134. iii. ADELBERT Wilson Barnes 8 , b. Nov. 15, 1868 ;
d. April 4, 1870.
(77). GEORGE W. SIGGINS 5 , b. October 7, 1843; d.
May. 20, 1911; m. February, 1868.
Melissa Bean, b. November 21, 1850, dau. of Abraham
and Nancy (Whitton) Bean. Children:
135. i. GJEORGIANA Siggins 8 , b. November 18, 1868 ;
married in 1907 :
Harry A. Walton, and live at Emlenton, N. Y.
They have one son :
136. i. JOSEPH Walton 7 , b. 1908.
137. ii. ELEANOR N. Siggins 8 , b. April 11, 1870; m.
1896:
William Merkle, of Tidioute, Pa. Children :
137a. i. KARL Merkle 7 , b. 1897.
137b. ii. EDWARD Merkle 7 , b. 1900.
137c. iii. RALPH Merkle 7 , b. 1905.
138. iii. ISAAC Plummer Siggins 8 , b. January 4, 1872 ;
lives at Perry, N. Y.
122 SlGGINS AND
139. iv. DR. GEORGE Siggins 6 , b. June 22, 1881; m.
1907:
Elsie E. Ross (dau. of 0. P. Ross, of Franklin,
Pa., Who is a lineal descendant of the father
of "Betsey Ross" who made the first United
States Flag) ; they have one son :
140. i. GEORGE Siggins, Jr. 7 , b. 1914.
141. vi. DAISY L. Siggins 6 , b. May 3, 1883 ; m. Octo-
ber 5, 1911:
George L. Nelson, of Tidioute, Pa. They have one
son:
142. i. GEORGE L. Nelson, Jr., b. 1912.
Other Families 123
BEAN FAMILY.
John Bean (1), the progenitor of the family in Penn-
sylvania, first appears in the town of Exeter, New Hamp-
shire, where he was granted land in 1660; it is said that
his first wife died on the ship coming to America, and
that they had one daughter Mary; he married 2nd, Mar-
garet, who was a fellow passenger; she joined the church
in Hampton, 1671 ; and as "goodwife Bean" was among
those dismissed in 1698, "in order to their being incorpo-
rated unto a church state in Exter." She was a member
in 1705, and died before 1718; John Bean died between
January 24 and February 8, 1718 ; he divided his property
among his children before his death and left no will ; chil-
dren were: John, who died young; Henry, Daniel, Samuel,
John, Margaret, James, Jeremy, Elizabeth and Catherine.
One of his descendants was the founder of the Pennsyl-
vania family.
Abraham Bean, born January 5, 1828; died February 3,
1882, and is buried at East Hickory, Forest County, Pa. ; he
was a well known and successful lumberman ; a member
of the Free Methodist Church and a republican ; he married
before 1848:
Nancy Whitton, a native of New Jersey.
Children :
i. FAYETTE Bean 3 , m. Judson Clark.
ii. *MELISSA Bean 3 , m. George W. Siggins (No. 77)
iii. ALBERT Bean 3 , a preacher, m. Flora Patterson,
and went to Alaska.
iv. HENRIETTA Bean 3 , d. young.
124 SlGGINS AND
v. ELLEN Bean 5 , m. Matthew McCray.
vi. WARREN Bean 3 , m. Delia Keiffer, lives in the
State of Washington.
vii. BELLE Bean 3 , m. William Hall.
viii. LAURA Bean 3 , m. Simon Metzgar.
ix. LINCOLN Bean \ d. young.
x. MARY Bean 3 , d. young.
xi. IDA Bean 3 , d. young.
xii. ALICE Bean 3 , d. young.
xiii. KIRK Bean 3 , lives in Delaware, Oklahoma.
(52). Nathaniel Hood Siggins, of Forest, Co., Penn-
sylvania, was one of the early pioneers of the old Siggins
stock, — an exhorter and a born leader of men. He mar-
ried Emmaline Harriett Range, who was a most estimable
woman, a helpmate in the truest sense of the word, at all
times.
Four of his sons grew to manhood. Nathaniel Simpson,
his fourth son, was one of the first to enlist when the
call came for volunteers for the Civil War; he served his
country well for three years ; he was serving in the capacity
of a musician, having a decided talent for the use of the
fife and drum and he loved martial music and folk songs,
and was always ready to do his part in caring for his
wounded companions. He carried his brother James from
the battlefield on one occasion at the risk of his own life.
He did much to keep up the spirits of his comrades; his
fund of wit and humor seemed inexaustible. His letters
to his betrothed, Amanda M. Switzer, whom he married
at the close of the war, were models of poetic composition,
portraying the pathetic and tragic incidents of his daily
life at the front. His stories and poems written for the
local papers were of genuine literary merit,
Other Families 125
Nathaniel Hood Siggins was a good neighbor and true
friend and will be greatly missed in the community where
he had lived so many years. He died in 1874, in Harmony,
New York.
His wife Harriett, belonged to a staunch Puritan New
England family and was noble and self-sacrificing to a re-
markable degree, continuing in good works until she was
called home, March 9, 1852.
126 SlGGINS AND
LIEUTENANT JOHN RANGE.
The Daughters of the American Revolution are endeavor-
ing to place metal markers at the graves of every Revolu-
tionary soldier in the country.
On Saturday Mr. John Siggins of Tidioute, came here
and placed one of these markers at the grave of the only
soldier of the Revolutionary War, buried in Riverside Ceme-
tery (Tionesta, Pa.).
The marker bears the following inscriptions:
"John Range, 1st Lieutenant, commissioned April 5, 1778."
Mr. Siggins is a great-grandson of the deceased. The
marker is about the size of a dinner plate, circular in form,
and around the edge are thirteen stars representing the
original thirteen states, for whose independence thousands
of patriots, like Mr. Range, suffered great privations and
gave up their lives, that future generations might enjoy
the blessings of a free country.
Mr. S. D. Irwin furnishes the following additional par-
ticulars concerning Lieutenant Range :
For his services in the Revolution he secured a land
warrant taken out in the name of his eldest son, Shallas
Range. The lottery warrant for the land was number 511,
dated May 15th, 1785, included 258 acres. In 1808 he ex-
amined the land with other soldiers, and in 1816, located
with his family at Tionesta. He came from Adams Co.,
Pa.
He selected the land now occupied by Tionesta Borough,
called Sa-qua-lin-get, which is interpreted "Place of Coun-
cil," being just above the mouth of Tubbs Run, and run-
ning thence as declared in the final survey and patent, "by
the base of Mount Ararat." This piece so selected embraced
Other Families 127
all of the bottom land, from above Tubbs Run to the south
line of what is now known as the Lawrence farm, crossing
of course Tionesta creek. Although the warrant and sur-
vey was to John Range, the patent was for some reason
issued to his son Shallos Range, but Shallos dying a young
man and unmarried, he received the land as Shallos' heir.
John Range then did the first draining ever done on the
place, and on quite an extensive scale, too; he cut a heavy
ditch from a swamp which started on what is now Williams
street, just below where it crosses Helen street. The
head of the swamp was filled up by Jacob M. Kepler a few
years ago, he graded the small bluff on the back end of his
lots off and that obliterated every trace of the swamp, but
the Range ditch, which extended from the swamp men-
tioned down the flat to the back channel, near Canfield's, is
traceable in many places to this day, and but a few years
ago, near the upper end of it, wild cherry trees had grown
up that were about 12 to 18 inches in diameter, just back of
where Harvey M. Foreman now lives. This ditch was a
fine piece of engineering and cut through three small
swamps and emptied their contents for the most part into
the back channel of the river as stated. It is said that
Lieutenant Range got some of his ideas of draining while
with the Revolutionary army on duty at Yorktown, Va.,
where he assisted in draining the low lands and marshes
about that place, when Washington's army occupied the
same. It is evident no better nor easier ground could
have been selected, and the lower end of this ditch is easily
traced to-day, and is utilized. Range before his death
divided his farm, Sa-qua-lin-get, into two nearly equal parts,
by a line beginning on the river at the old red oak tree,
near the Shriver place, and extending easterly to his east
line on the hill. The north half went to his son John, Jr.,
and the lower part to his son James. James in his lifetime
sold out to various parties, and some relatives, while John
sold his entire part to Rev. Hezekiah May, who died pos-
sessed of the same July 4, 1843. It should here be men-
tioned that Lieutenant Range selected a place for his
grave and that of his wife, just back of what is now F. C.
128 SlGGINS AND
Proper's barn, on a little knoll, and in his deed to May,
John Range, Jr., reserves "one rod square where the par-
ents of first party lies buried." A barn being erected, it
became an unsightly place for the burial of a revoluationary
patriot and his wife, and so arrangements were made by
H. M. Foreman, who had purchased a lot which included
the square rod reserve, with the numerous relatives and
decendants of the patriot, to purchase a beautiful lot on a
knoll in Riverside Cemetery, and their dust was removed
there at the expense of Mr. Foreman, with the consent of
the wide circle of relatives. John Range in his early days,
was a miller near Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pa., and John
and William P. Siggins, two of his descendants, went on a
pilgrimage to the mill of their eminent ancestor, and it was
with great joy that they found old settlers who had tra-
ditions of him, but what delighted them more was to find
the old mill itself with his name cut in the stone undoubted-
ly by his own hand.
John Range served through the great struggle for inde-
pendence, was commissioned First Lieutenant of 5th com-
pany of 4th battalion, York County, Pa., militia, April 5th,
1778. He is justly called the first white settler east of the
Allegheny in the present bounds of Forest County, Pa. He
first came out prospecting to view this land, establishing a
farm at what is now Tionesta, this was in the year 1816.
He was a native of Pennsylvania; after the war was over
he settled in Adams County, where being successful in
his business he acquired considerable property.
In Hon. S. D. Irvin's History of Forest County, he says:
"Jacob Shriner says that Lieut. John Range was born in
the eastern part of Pennsylvania, in 1746, and died in
Tionesta in 1826, aged 80 years." You will find reference
in the Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 14,
page 513.
Copy of a Deed From Lieut. John Range.
Dated Dec. 13, 1805.
"John Range and Mandlin (Shallos) his wife of Mount
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Pleasant Township in the county of Adams, Pa., to Fred-
erick Myers, Sr., of Berwick Township, Adams Co., Pa., 190
acres & 83 perches and all of Pattent dated Jan 22, 1767
Granted by Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Esqra, Pro-
priators and Governors in Chief of the Province of Penn-
sylvania to Theobalt Shallos & his heirs and Assigns. Pat-
ent recorded in the office for Recording of deeds for the
City and County of Philadelphia, in Patent Book, A. D.
Vol & Page 169 Reference thereto being had may more
full appear and the said Theobalt Shallos by his last will
and testament being dated the 5th day of Sept 1788, did
give and bequeathe the same to Mandlin party hereto in
the words following "Viz" Also I leave and bequeathe unto
my daughter Mandlin, intermarried with John Range my
Plantation that I live on, and the mill on said place to her,
her Heirs and assigns for ever, the said last will and
Testament remaining in the Registers office in York, for
the County of York, may more at large appear, together
with all and singular the Houses out houses buildings barns
stables Gardens Orchards Medow ways woods water, Water
courses Mills Mill Work and improvements rights liberties
privileges lights Easments improvements hariditments and
appertances whatsoever to the said tract of land belonging
or in any wise appertaining and the revisions and re-
mainders rents issues and profits thereof."
(Signed) John Range.
her
Mandlin — X — Range.
mark
Witness in presence of)
Peter Marshall. )
George Kuhn. ) Acknowledged Dec 13th, 1805.
This land is located on Little Consewago Creek near New
Oxford, Adams County, Pa., so says John Siggins, who
visited the property with his brother, William P. Siggins,
about 1900.
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The old Grist Mill was built by Theobalt Shallos in 1747.
( "Tha. Frank en Taller )
( 1747 Mill Pild bei )
( Deobalt Sholas." )
The above is a copy of the inscription that I found cut in
large letters in a large stone placed over the main entrance
to the Mill. The Mill was originally built of stone, but
had burned down in Sept., 1888, and was rebuilt in Oct.,
1888, and the old stone tablet had been replaced over the
door of the rebuilt Mill as the fire had not injured the in-
scription. On the corner stone of the old Saw-Mill I found
this date and letters: "1795. I. R." On the one hundredth
anniversary of the settlement of Tionesta the Range family
held a Reunion, at which time a bronze tablet to the mem-
ory of John Range was dedicated.
HUNTER.
POLAND HUNTER 1 , b. 1751.
married
Jane Simpson, b. 1761.
Children :
i. WILLIAM Hunter 2 , b. Dec. 25, 1794; d. Jan. 29,
1879 ; m. Aug. 6, 1816.
Sarah Range, b. March 27, 1800 ; d. March 5, 1878 ;
a dau. of Lieut. John, Jr., and Nancy (Myers)
Range. Lieut. John Range, Sr., served in the
Revolutionary War, b. 1746, d. 1826 in Tionesta,
Pa. Children of William and Sarah (Range)
Hunter.
(50) i. JANE Hunter 3 , b. Aug. 7, 1817; m. Feb. 19,
1838, William Siggins (No. 50). She died March
20, 1870.
ii. HANNAH Hunter 5 .
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iii. HARRIET Hunter', d. young.
iv. JOHN Hunter ; .
v. JAMES Hunter, of Mill Village, Pa., m.
Mrs. Rachel Elizabeth (Allender) Mc-
Grory, widow, dau. of Joseph Allender
(No. 1077).
vi. MOSES Hunter.
vii. ELLEN Hunter".
viii. GEORGE Hunter, m. Adaline .
ix. WILLIAM Hunter, Jr.
DESCENDANTS OF LIEUT. JOHN RANGE,
WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
National No.— 33563.
(76) JANE Young Siggins, born in West Hickory, Pa.;
wife of Wilson C. Barnes ; daughter of Judge Wil-
iam Siggins and Jane Hunter, his wife; grand-
daughter of William Hunter and Sarah Range, his
wife; gr-granddaughter of John Range, Jr., and
Mary Myers, his wife; gr-gr-granddaughter of
Lieut. John Range and Mandlin Shalos, his wife;
Lieut. John Range, b. 1746 ; d. 1826 ; Tionesta, Pa.
Was Lieut. 5th Co., York County, Pennsylvania,
Revolutionary War.
National No.— 33565.
(101) CLARA Carter Siggins, born in West Hickory, Pa.;
wife of Edgar Warren Stebbins, of Ripley, N. Y. ;
daughter of Judge John Siggins and Clarissa Mar-
tin Carter, his wife ; granddaughter of Judge Wil-
132 SlGGINS AND
liam Siggins and Jane Hunter, his wife; (other
ancestors same as above).
National No.— 33566.
(135) GEORGIAN A Siggins, born in Tidioute, Pa.; wife
of Harry A. Walton, of Elmenton, N. Y. ; daughter
of George Wilson Siggins and Melissa Bean, his
wife; granddaughter of Judge William Siggins
and Jane Hunter, his wife; (other ancestors same
as above).
National No.— 33567.
(80) ALICE New Siggins, born in West Hickory, Pa.;
daughter of Andrew Jackson Siggins and Emily
Neil, his wife; granddaughter of Judge William
Siggins and Jane Hunter, his wife; (other an-
cestors same as above) .
(52) NATHANIEL HOOD SIGGINS 4 , of Forest Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania; b. May 15, 1807, in Venango County,
Penn. ; d. May 2, 1874, in Harmony, N. Y. ; m. June 7,
1832, in Venango County.
Emeline Harriet Range, dau. of (Lieut. John Range, a
soldier in the Revolutionary War) ; b. July 22, 1813 ; d.
March 9, 1852. Children:
143. i. MARY Jane Siggins 5 ,
b. June 23, 1833 ; in Forest County, Pa.
d. Mar. 12, 1858;
m. May 17, 1855;
John Hatten Siggins (No. 759).
144.* ii. WILLIAM Young Siggins 5 ,
b. December 15, 1834 ; in Forest County, Pa.
d. March 14, 1904 ;
m. May 15, 1861 ; in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Hannah Melinda Allender (1082), b. July 2, 1832.
145. iii. GEORGE Hood Siggins*,
b. June 16, 1837; d. March 1852.
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146. iv. JAMES Patterson Siggins"', known as "Pat."
b. September 8, 1839;
d. October 21, 1912; m. 1st, Jan. 28, 1864;
Rachel Henderson; m. 2nd.,
Sarah Braden.
They had one daughter:
147. i. GERTRUDE Siggins", who died young.
148.- v. NATHANIEL Simpson Siggins-',
b. August 8, 1841 ;
d. January 26, 1893, in Bradford, Pa.
m. January 1, 1865 ;
Amanda M. Switzer, b. Nov., 1839; d. May 9, 1912.
149. ::: vi. JOHN Wesley Siggins 5 ,
b. August 4, 1843, at Stewart's Run, Forest Co.,
Pa.; m. April 28, 1864;
Jennie Clark, b. January 18, 1845, in Scotland.
150. vii. MARGARET Mariannie Siggins"',
b. December 3, 1845 ;
d. April 30, 1874 ;
m. January 9, 1865 ;
Benjamin A. Smith, who was killed at the battle
of Hatcher's Run, September 6, 1865 ; m. 2nd,
Alfred Allender (No. 1083), and had:
151. i. LEONA Allender, b. 18.. ; m.
Edward Birchard, of Cambridge Springs, Pa.
152. viii. ISAAC WILSON SIGGINS',
b. April 18, 1848;
d. November 18, 1906; m.
Lucy Watkins, of Steuben County, N. Y.
Children :
153. i. ELBERT Siggins , lives at Woodfield, Ohio;
has four sons.
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154. ii. LUELLA Siggins 6 , lives at Glen Willard, Pa.
m. Bailey.
Children :
i. LEONA May Bailey 7 , b. Mar. 24,
1893.
ii. GEORGE Melton Bailey 7 , b. Mar. 27,
1895.
iii. JOSEPH Wilson Bailey 7 , b. Dec. 8,
1901.
155. iii. ANNIE Siggins 6 .
156. ix. ANNIE May Siggins 5 , b. December 19th, 1851,
at Stewarts Run, Venango County, Pa., m.
April 3rd, 1873.
Capt. Peter Grace, (C. W.), now resides at Robin-
son, 111. (Capt. Peter Grace died March 17,
1914, he was a son of Michael and Marcella
Grace, he was born March 28, 1845).
Children :
157. i. GERTRUDE Anna Grace 6 , b. January 18th,
1874, at Parkers Landing, Pa., attended
schools at Jamestown, New York, and
graduated from Miss Brown's School, New
York City. Married September 26th, 1899,
to Richard Everitt Dwight of New York
City, where they now reside, and where
Mr. Dwight is a law partner of Chas.
Evans Hughes, presidential candidate of
the Republican party in the election of
1916. (Richard E. Dwight is a son of M.
E. and Helen Kirby Dwight.)
158. ii. CHARLES Sumner Grace 6 , b. May 24th,
1875, at Karnes City, Butler County, Pa.,
attended schools at Jamestown, N. Y.,
Peekskill Military School and Lafayette
College, at Easton, Pa. Served in the
Spanish-American War, 1898. Married
June 9th, 1909 ; Mary Ann Harper, dau. of
James Meredith and Francis Isabella Har-
CAPTAIN PETER GRACE.
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ANNIE M. (SIGGINS) GRACE.
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per, of Marietta, Ohio. Now resides at
Robinson, 111., where he is engaged in the
oil business with his mother.
Captain Peter Grace was born in Ireland, March 18, 1845
and came to America when three years of age. Like many
others of our foreign born citizens, when the life of the
nation was threatened, he answered the call to arms of his
adopted country and in 1861, when a mere boy, enlisted in
Company E, of the 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteers as a pri-
vate, and received his honorable discharge in July, 1865,
as the captain of his company.
In this service he participated in all the battles and hard-
ships in which his regiment engaged and suffered during
the four years of enlistment, and by valor and bravery on
the field of action, won advancement until he reached the
command of his company.
At the "Battle of the Wilderness," May 5, 1864, his con-
duct was distinguished by special acts of bravery and valor,
for which, thirty years later, Congress by special act
awarded him a Medal of Honor. Those who knew Captain
Grace say no such tribute was ever more worthily be-
stowed.
After the war he located at Pitthole, Vanango County,
Pennsylvania, where he, as one of the pioneers of a new
industry, engaged in the oil business which he continued
until his death. He had the reputation of discovering
more new oil fields and expending more money in their
development than any other man. At least two of the
fields opened by him were record breakers for that time.
These were the Murdock, Pa. field, and the Cherry Grove,
Pa. field, which was opened with a big gusher on Sec. 646,
which figures are remembered by every pioneer oil man in
the county.
Captain Grace was a generous, big hearted, true and hon-
orable man. He was ever ready to extend a helping hand
to those in need and was ever thinking of good he could do
to others. Few men came nearer living to the Golden Rule
as their life principle. He was a member of the Military
136 SlGGINS AND
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and was
a thirty-second degree Mason.
The death of Captain Grace occurred at 6:20 a. m., Fri-
day, March 17th, 1914, after a brief illness of pneumonia.
He is survived by a widow, one son, Charles Grace, of
this city, and one daughter, Mrs. R. E. Dwight, of New
York City. Mr. Dwight was a law partner of ex-Governor
Hughes of New York.
Funeral services were conducted at the family residence,
108 N. Robb Street, at 3 p. m., Saturday, by Rev. J. D.
Shaddrick of the M. E. Church. Most magnificent floral
offerings were contributed by friends and orders to which
he belonged, as tokens of their esteem. A cortege of over
five hundred men, mostly old soldiers, oil operators and
oil workers, accompanied the body to the train whence it
was taken to Washington, D. C, for interment in the Na-
tional Cemetery at Arlington, where it was laid to rest with
military honors.
The history of the Congressional Medal of Honor dates
from 1862, when it was apparent that the civil war was
bound to call forth many instances of extreme bravery
which deserved extraordinary and lasting reward. The
idea of such a decoration, however, originated with Gen.
George Washington, who in 1782 established the honorary
badge of military merit as a mark for distinguished con-
duct in the Revolution.
The original resolution of Congress relative to medals
approved in 1862 authorized the President to cause to be
prepared a large number of medals and to direct that they
be presented in the name of Congress "to such non-com-
missioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish
themselves by their gallantry in action during the present
Insurrection."
In the following year provision was made to extend the
award of the medal to officers.
It was not until 1897 that regulations definitely enun-
(156) WAR MEDAL OF
CAPTAIN PETER GRACE.
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dating the conditions under which the medal should be
awarded were promulgated. They emphasized the diffi-
culty of winning the decoration and the great honor attach-
ing to its possession.
In order that the Congressional Medal of Honor may be
deserved, service must have been performed in action of
such conspicuous character as to clearly distinguish the
man for gallantry and intrepidity above his comrades, ser-
vice that involved extreme jeopardy of life or the perform-
ance of extraordinarily hazardous duty. In other words,
the Medal of Honor is a medal for super-heroes, for men
who not only risk their lives in some extraordinary way,
but who display such intelligence in the action that it
stands out as something apart from conduct in the line of
duty. Executive orders prescribe the way in which the
medal may be gained. Recommendations for the medal
will be judged by this standard of extraordinary merit,
and incontestible proof of performance of the service will
be exacted.
Among the men who have earned the Medal of Honor
are Gen. Leonard Wood, Gen. J. Franklin Bell, Gen. W. H.
Carter, Gen. Albert L. Mills, Gen. Earnest A. Garlington,
Gen. Hugh Scott, the late Gen. Frederick Funston and the
late Admiral George Dewey.
(144) WILLIAM YOUNG SIGGINS 5 , b. December 14,
1835 , at Tionesta, Pa., d. March 15, 1904, at Tidioute, Pa. ;
m . May 1861, at Stewarts Run, Pa.
Hannah Malinda Allender (1196). See Allender family.
b. July 2, 1834, at Stewarts Run, Pa. Children :
159. i. Dr. JACOB Siggins", b. December 13, 1863, at
Tidioute, Pa. ; married three times, his third
wife was living in 1912. Children:
160. i. EARL Siggins 7 ,
161. ii. RALPH Siggins 7 ,
162. iii. CLYDE Siggins 7 .
163. ii. ELIZABETH Anne Siggins fi , b. May 10, 1866,
at Stewarts Run, Pa.; m. Sept. 3, 1885, at
Stewarts Run, Pa.
138 SlGGINS AND
Joseph Clark Scowden, b. Oct. 11, 1857, at Mead-
ville, Pa. Children:
164. i. FLORA Leona Scowden 7 , b. June 16, 1886;
m. December 22, 1908 ;
Albert William Zahnleiter, a civil engineer,
b. 1885, at New Britian, Conn. Children :
164a - i. ANNE Jane Zahnleiter 8 , b. Oct. 19, 1909.
164b. ii. ALBERT William Zahnleiter 8 , b. Apr.
11, 1913.
164c. iii. BERTHA Emma Zahnleiter 8 , b. Aug. 22
1915.
165. ii. MARY Essie Scowden 7 , b. April 14, 1889.
166. iii. BERTHA Elizabeth Scowden 7 , b. May 29,
1892.
(148) NATHANIEL SIMPSON SlGGINS', b. August
1841, at Tionesta, Pa.; d. January 26, 1893, at Bradford,
Pa. ; m.
Amanda M. Switzer, b. November 1839 ; d. May 9,
1912. Children:
167. i. ESTELLA May Siggins 6 , b. May 6, 1864; m.
June 22, 1885 ;
Walter Scott Churchill, of Kansas City, Mo., b.
June , 1855 ; (a son of Henry and Caroline
(McMasters) Churchill). Children:
168. LEATHA Estell Churchill 7 , b. June 23, 1893.
169. ii. HARRY Scott Siggins 6 , Manager of the "Sig-
gins Stock Company." He is known from coast
to coast as a talented actor, in high class vaude-
ville plays.
170. iii. PERCY Wallace Siggins 6 , b. March 18, 1879,
at Branford, Pa.
171. iv. MERTA E. Siggins 6 , b. March 27, 1882; m.
, 1893;
William Fossel Noxon, of Bradford, Pa. Children :
172. i. NANCY Alice Noxon 7 , b. October 12, 1911.
172a. ii. WILLIAM Fossel Noxon, Jr. 7 .
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CHURCHILL FAMILY
The first of the name to settle in America was:
Lieut. William Churchill, who settled in Manhattan.
(He is supposed to have been a son of Joseph Churchill,
a London merchant who traded with Salem) .
One of his children was buried in the first grave in Trin-
ity Church Yard.
WILLIAM CHURCHILL, he was a lieutenant in the
army of King James II. He m. in 1672, Susannah Bray-
ser. Their children were: Annie, b. in Trinity; Charles,
Richard, Robert and Edward.
EDWARD CHURCHILL, b. 1679; m. Wintje Rydor, a
quakeress ; their children were : Alice, John, b. 1718 ; Anne,
Lavina and Robert.
JOHN CHURCHILL, b. 1718; m. 1st Hannah Hinkel,
2nd Rebecca Sundred ; their children were : Isaac, b. 1758 ;
Pheobe; Jonas; Henry; Benjamin; Mary.
ISAAC CHURCHILL, b. 1758 ; m. Nancy Phillips ; their
children were : Rebecca ; Catherine ; John S., b. 1784 ; Isaac ;
Nancy; Polly; Benjamin Phillips; Katherine; Henry.
JOHN S. CHURCHILL, b. 1784 ; m. Anna Neeley ; their
children were: Morgan Neeley; Henry Mortimer; Susan;
Reuben; Mary; Catherine; John.
HENRY MORTIMER CHURCHILL, b 1811; m. Caro-
line McMasters; their children were: Demarius ; Anne;
Frank; George; Walter Scott, b. 1855; Rossell ; Lillie;
Katie; Herman.
(167) WALTER SCOTT CHURCHILL, b. 1855; m.
Estell May Siggins.
140 SlGGINS AND
ISAAC CHURCHILL, b 1758; served in the Revolu-
tionary War, in Abraham Brinkerhoff's Regiment. (N. Y.
in the Rev. p-136).
LIEUTENANT HENRY NEELEY, father of Anna
Neeley (Mrs. John S. Churchill), was a lieut, in the Orange
County Militia, in the Revolutionary War. N. Y. in the
Rev. War. p-161.
Ref. The Churchill Family in America, by Gardner A.
Churchill.
The history of the Churchill family of England dates
back to the time of the Norman Conquest. The name is
derived from the town Courcil, in Lorraine, France. The
surname has been spelled Coucelle, Courcil, Cuchell, Cher-
cile, Churchil, Churchall, Churchell, and Churchill, the last
being the one generally accepted for many generations in
England and America. The Churchill coat-of-arms is:
Sable a lion rampant argent debruised with a bendlet
gules. Eight generations of the Churchill family have
been Dukes of Marlborough. The first Duke was John
Churchill, born May 24, 1650, at Ase, Devonshire, son of
Sir Winston Churchill, of Wiltshire whose mother was a
Winston. The present Duke, the eighth, Richard John
Churchill, married Consuelo Vanderbilt, of New York
City. Winston Churchill, an author and member of par-
liament, is grand-son of the seventh duke, and son of Sir
Randolph Churchill. It is likely that the American Pion-
eers of the seventeenth century were of the same stock.
Colonel William Churchill came to Virginia about 1672
from Wilton, Middlesex county; was a member of the Vir-
nia council in 1705 ; died 1710 ; and from his son Armistead
is descended the Churchills of Virginia. It is of interest
to note that the daughter of Colonel William married
Thomas Randolph, in 1710. This and further records of
the Churchill family of New England will be found in the
second volume of "Historic Homes and Places and Genea-
logical and Personal Memoirs relating to the families of
Middlesex county, Massachusetts, prepared under the super-
vision of William Richard Cutter A. M.
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(149) JOHN WESLEY SIGGINS", of Bradford, Pa.,
b. August 4, 1843, at Stewarts Run, Forest County, Pa.,
m. April 28, 1864, in Forest County, Pa.
Jennie Clark, b. January 18, 1845, in Scotland. Children :
173. i. ROBINA Emeline Siggins'\ b. June 13, 1865,
in Pithole, Pa.; d. January 29, 1898; m. June
23, 1891.
Martin J. Lowe. Their home was in Bradford,
Pa. They had one son :
174. i. MARTIN J. Lowe, Jr. 7 , b. March 16, 1892.
175. ii. HERBERT Clark Siggins", b. December 30,
1870; d. July 16, 1873.
176. iii. PEA&L Louise Siggins , b. August 27, 1875;
m. June 21, 1904, in Bradford, Pa.
Charles Stratton Smiley, b. September 3, 1861, in
Franklin, Venango County, Pa.; d. August 13,
1915, in Clarksburg, W. Va. Son of William
M., b. September 12, 1811, and Jane Kinnear
Smiley, b. March 18, 1820. Children:
177. i. JANE Louise Smiley 7 , b. May 8, 1905.
178. ii. RUTH Kinnear Smiley 7 , b. March 8, 1907.
178a. iii. HELEN Bushnell Smiley 7 , b. November 6,
1912.
GEORGE SIMPSON SIGGINS
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DIED.
"At his home in Harmony Township, Forest Co., Pa.,
at 10 o'clock p. m. on Friday the 20th day of August,
1875 George Simpson Siggins, aged 66 years.
Deceased was the father of nine children, one son and
eight daughters, these and his wife survive him. We are
unable to do justice to our friend, and will not attempt it.
142 SlGGINS AND
In the language of the lines he knew so well, and which
are descriptive of his character:
"A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod;
An honest man's the work of God."
He was a lover of bees; Huber himself could not have
been more delighted with their kingdom ; he was as much
a naturalist as Audubon or Lord Byron, "With nature's
self he seemed an old acquaintance, free to jest." He ful-
filled in his life the imaginary good man of the poet Pope.
"Who noble ends by noble means attains,
That man is great, in exile or in chains ;
Like good Aurelius, let him reijfi or bleed —
Like Socrates, that man is great indeed."
There is no doubt that he knew more of Scotland's great
poet, Burns, than any other man in this section. He re-
velled over the quaintness of "Tarn o' Shanter," he was
contemplative over "Man Was Made to Mourn."
"He was a man, take him for all in all,
We ne'er shall look upon his like again."
"He was the noblest Roman of them all."
In brief, he had a heart overflowing with all the elements
of human kindness. His countenance and manner de-
noted one of nature's true noblemen. The blood of his
ancestors spoke through his countenance as it were. He
used Anglo Saxon with great power. Vice he handled
without gloves. Yet he was true and right, just and gen-
erous. The poor marked him as their friend, they mourn
the loss of their benefactor.
May his sleep be sweet. His memory is fragrant as the
flowers of spring time, and the calm consideration is left
to his stricken friends that he died in the summer, full of
hope.
GEORGE SIGGINS HOWE.
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"Truth, Love and Mercy, in triumph descending,
While nature all glowing like Eden's first bloom,
On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending,
And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb."
He was a passionate lover of Nature and saw God in
the woods, in the fields, and flowers. He noticed all the
curious little things that many pass by, always coming in
from his walks, with curious plants, specimens, Indian
relics, etc., many of which are now in museums, given to
them by him. He was a good man, one who enjoyed the
felicity of this world with all his heart, and we know that
he has entered into an ever-abiding City of Rest, where
we are sure he will be happy forever. He was a type of
Leigh Hunt's, 'Abou Ben Adhem,' for he loved his fellow
men."
From the "Forest Press," Saturday, August 28, 1875.
THE FOLLOWING SKETCH OF GEORGE SIMPSON
SIGGINS WAS WRITTEN BY HIS DAUGHTER
HARRIETT HOWE.
In 1858, June 7th to 11th, there came upon the fields
of heading wheat, rye, corn and potatoes, the clover fields,
gardens and forests, a blighting freeze ; every green grow-
ing thing was killed, ice was frozen on all vegetation, each
clover leaf had a film of ice ; the sun came out in full rad-
iance on the morning of the 11th, that was the freeze that
struck the river valleys; when the ice melted every green
thing wilted down, as though scalded.
I remember the woe that was expressed on my fathers
face as he saw the result of his labor all destroyed; there
was no rebellion against the providence he could not under-
stand. He said: Alas! Alas! a few times and then the
Lord gave him courage to plan for himself and his neigh-
bors; Mother was his wise and patient counsellor; this
144 SlGGINS AND
was the year of the discovery of oil by drilling. Father
had bought two tracts of land ; he still had a few payments
to make, that year he leased to the oil men and had a
plentiful income; in a few days he decided to plow up his
ruined grain fields, and sow buckwheat, plant corn, and
gardens which matured — the farms back from the river
had the greatest losses, in many cases they had no seed to
replant. Father sold them buckwheat and other seed they
desired at the selling price before the frost, and those
with no money, he gave or trusted them for pay — and he
and mother generously gave them garden seeds.
My father and his brothers were loyal union men dur-
ing the civil war; he and mother had nine nephews and
three young cousins who enlisted and went to the war —
all but one of them were intimate visitors at our home,
that was Porter Siggins, of Youngsville. I will give the
names of the soldier boys :
The cousins were: Porter Siggins, Fletcher Dawson,
and Charles Connely. Nephews: William Dawson, George
Richardson, John Allender, William Ross Dawson, William
Parker Siggins, James Patterson Siggins, Simpson Sig-
gins, and Wilson Siggins. By marriage: Capt. Benja-
min A. Smith, whose wife was Margaret Mariannie Sig-
gins.
Those who died in the war were: Capt. Benjamin A.
Smith, Porter Siggins, Fletcher Dawson, Charles Connely
and William Dawson.
Father, his brothers and his Scotch friends were all
readers of the New York Tribune, Philadelphia and Pitts-
burg papers, many of father's friends who were not so
fortunate, came often to him for the news; he was cast in
the prophetic mold ; one thing that I well remember, though
but a little child, was his recital of the Crimean war news,
and enlightenment of its problems; later the project to
build the railway across the continent which seemed an
impossibility to them, the rocky mountains were a barrier
they could not pass — so father explained that the genius
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of man could tunnel the mountains; I remember a man
said "well if they build the road, no one can afford to take
the journey over it." I recall fathers assurance that the
road would be a great investment and that multitudes
would go at a reasonable price. The Civil war put a stop
to the construction, and the news of President Lincoln's
death was carried to California over the Santa Fe Trail
by Pony Express, making the fastest time on record.
When Secretary Seward made the purchase of Alaska
for the United States, father was eloquent in his defense;
"what folly to pay seven millions of dollars for a waste
of ice, snow and impassible mountains" ; father had been
reading the reports of Lewis and Clark, sent out by the
government to explore the Pacific coast — after reading of
the mineral, animal and timber treasures of the north-
western territory, he reasoned with the remarkable ocean
currents that the purchase was a wise and valuable acqui-
sition — so clear and emphatic was he that I became inter-
ested and began to read everything I found on Alaska and
have continued to do so ever since. I sent to Washington
for literature on that wonderful country and they sent me
a rich supply, and five great maps that I had to spread
over the piano to study them. I have Dr. Hall Young's
books, and have heard him three times lecture and show
his marvelous views. Have read John Muir's books and
articles, and Frank Carpenter's reports. Dr. Young says
Frank Carpenter gives a correct account in every letter
regarding that great country. Dr. Young has been a mis-
sionary in Alaska thirty-eight years.
Emeline Harriet Howe.
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DEDICATION OF THE NEW CHURCH AT
WEST HICKORY, PA.
Sunday July 30, 1904, was a day of happiness and re-
joicing for the congregation of the Methodist church of
West Hickory, for it witnessed the dedication and final turn-
ing over to them of the beautiful new church building pre-
sented through the generosity of Messrs. Orion Siggins,
of West Hickory, and T. D. Collins, of Nebraska, Pa. The
dedicatory services were conducted by Bishop C. C. Mc-
Cabe, assisted by the pastor, Rev. E. D. Mowrey, Rev. W.
O. Calhoun, of Tionesta, Rev. J. K. Whipple, of Stockton,
N. Y., Rev. S. B. Torry of Erie, Pa., and Rev. H. K. Steele,
of Townville, Pa., the last three being former pastors of
that charge.
The sermon was delivered by Bishop McCabe, from the
text as found in Exodus 25 ;8: "And let them make me a
sanctuary ; that I may dwell among them". It was an elo-
quent discourse suited to the occasion and it was evident
that this grand old servant of the Master had lost none of
his power to sway the minds of men. At the conclusion
of the sermon the trustees, Messrs, Orion Siggins, T. D.
Collins, and J. G. Carson, were called to the chancel rail and
the edifice was formally dedicated by the Bishop to the
service and worship of Almighty God.
The church stands in the centre of the town, on South
Main St. on a lot donated by Mr. Orion Siggins. Three hun-
dred people can be seated comfortably in the new edifice.
The total cost of the building will be about $8000.00 which
was borne equally by Messrs, Siggins and Collins, and it
was presented to the congregation without a dollar of in-
debtedness." Mr. Siggins also donated the lot on which the
new parsonage now stands."
JOSEPHINE (SIGGINS) UTTER.
(183)
A - r
ORION SIGGINS.
(182)
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(53) GEORGE SIMPSON SIGGINS\ b. September 30,
1809, in Venango County, Pa., d. August 20, 1875; in For-
est County, Pa., m. April 10, 1843 ; by Rev. J. R. Miller.
Rachel Dawson, No. (1113), b. at Stewarts Run. She
was a devout member of the Methodist Church.
A noble Christian woman whose every act and deed was
calculated to elevate and better the condition of those about
her. She will be greatly missed from the community where
her long and useful life was spent.
179.* i. EMELINE Harriet Siggins ■', b. January 2, 1844 ;
in West Hickory, Pa., m. January 1, 1867; in
West Hickory, Pa. by Rev. H. H. Moore.
Col. Wesley C. Howe.
180.* ii. HANNAH Irene Siggins"', (Named for Irene
Ross), b. March 21, 1845; in West Hickory, Pa.
m. March 11, 1863, in West Hickory, Pa., by
Rev. J. F. Stocker.
James Gilfillan.
181. iii. RACHEL Ringold Siggins , b. November 17,
1846 ; in West Hickory, Pa., m. October 16, 1866 ;
in the old home in West Hickory, by Rev. A. N.
Craft.
John Robertson Gilfillan, b. December 19, 1840 ; in
Clarion County, Pa., son of Rev. James and Jane
(Robertson) Gilfillan. He enlisted in the civil
war June 16, 1865; came to Tidioute, in 1871;
was commander of the Col. George Cobham,
Post G. A. R. No-311. She d. Aug., 1913.
182. iv. ORION Siggins\ of West Hickory, Forest
County, Pa., b. June 3, 1848, in West Hickory,
m. Nov. 26, 1884; in West Hickory.
Mary Alice Hall, b. June 29, 1859, in Steubenville,
Ohio, (dau. of Joseph, b. Mar. 27, 1833, and
Rachel E. (McGrew) , b. May 27, 1833, near Smith-
ville, Ohio).
One daughter,
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183. i. JOSEPHINE Siggins«, b. October 16, 1889;
m. June 23, 1915 ;
Dr. Henry Edward Utter, of Providence, R. I.
184.* v. ELIZABETH Siggins"', b. September 21, 1851;
in West Hickory, Pa., m. May 18, 1871 ; in West
Hickory, by Rev. A. J. Hume.
Clinton C. Smith, Sr., of Orrsville, Armstrong Co.
Pa.
185. vi. FRANCES Baird Siggins r \ of West Hickory,
Pa., b. September 4, 1853; is living at the old
home place in West Hickory.
186. vii. JANE Irving Siggins"', b. Nov. 8, 1856, in West
Hickory, Forest County, Pa.
187. viii. JUNE Evert Siggins"', b. Oct. 7, 1861, in West
Hickory, Forest County, Pa., m. June 18, 1885.
Frank Allen Wheeler of Mercer County, Pa. The
first of the name in America was William Wheel-
er who came from England and settled in New
England. Frank A. Wheeler's father Amos was
born Dec. 17, 1818 in Connecticut. His mother,
Mary Elizabeth Fuller, was born September 9,
1823. His grandfather Samuel Wheeler war.
born in 1773, and his grandmother, Hannah
King, was born in 1788. Her father, Jonas King,
served in the Revolution; he was present at
the surrender of General Burgoyne. His par-
ents both taught school. His older brother,
Samuel A. Wheeler of the 150th Penn. Volun-
teers died in Andersonville prison.
Frank A. Wheeler is musical director in the
Public Schools of Mercer and Grove City, Penn.,
being wonderfully gifted in the qualities that
make for success in this, his chosen profession,
and his son, Frank Allan Wheeler, Jr., bids fair
to follow in the footsteps of his father. He has
JUNE (SIGGINS) WHEELER.
(187)
FRANCIS A. WHEELER.
(188)
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already met with great success in work as a
musical instructor, — was engaged by the U. S.
Navy Department as Musical Director for the
training camp at Paris Island, South Carolina.
Where he is at present (1918) located, b. Jan.
5, 1860, in Meadville, Pa. They had one son :
188. i. FRANCIS Allen Wheeler, Jr., b. Feb. 25,
1888, in West Hickory, Pa.
189. ix. JUSTINA Simpson Siggins'. Not married, b.
Sept. 4, 1867, in West Hickory, Forest County,
Pa. She has compiled some interesting historic-
al sketches of the early history of the family,
and arranged a most interesting and ingenious
"Family Tree" on which appear the various
branches of the Siggins family.
(179) EMELINE HARRIET SIGGINS 5 , b. January 2,
1844; in West Hickory, Forest County, Pa., m. in West
Hickory, by Rev. H. H. Moore, January 1, 1867.
Capt. Wesley Curtis Howe, b. March 19, 1833, in Clarion
County, Pa., d. July 16, 1914 ; in Kansas City Mo. Children:
190. i. GEORGE Siggins Howe 6 , b. in Plumerville,
Venango County, Pa., November 21, 1867, was
named for his grandfather George Simpson
Siggins. He is a graduate of the Franklin, Pa.,
High School, engaged in the Oil and Gas bus-
iness — assisted in piping natural gas into Frank-
lin, Sharon and Youngstown; was employed by
the Atlantic Refining Company, of Franklin, as
traveling representative, was sent by that com-
pany in 1888, to Burlington, Vt., to represent the
late F. W. Ballard, with whom he was associated
in the oil business. Since 1907, he has acted as
Millers' Agent for the Northwestern Milling
Company, of Minneapolis over a wide territory,
with headquarters at Burlington, Vermont.
191. ii. WESLEY Curtis Howe, Jr.", of Kansas City,
—li
150 SlGGINS AND
Missouri, b. September 6, 1871, in Franklin, Pa.,
m. 1st., December 6, 1891, in Elwood, Indiana,
by Rev. Dr. Steight.
Flora May Edwins, who d. February 1, 1896 ; (dau.
of Ex-Senator Dr. Edwins, of Elwood, Ind), m
2nd., in Elwood, Indiana, August 16, 1898, by
Bishop McCabe.
Lillie D Hority, b. April 9, 1880. (dau. of J. H.
De Hority, a banker of that city). They had
one son:
192. i. CURTIS Havens Howe 7 , b. August 21, 1901,
is now (1917) at the school of Military
Aeronautics, at Toronto, Canada. Enlisted
at the age of 17. "Cadet C. H. Howe, No.
153066. Wesley C. Howe, Jr., m. 3d, Mrs.
Anna Shaffer.
193. iii. JOHN Dawson Howe , of Upland, California, b.
January 27, 1877, in Franklin, Pa., m. January
23, 1907; in Kansas City, Mo., is now (1918)
Chairman of a "War Activities Committee" in
Upland, California. Both Mr. and Mrs. Howe
are doing active war work.
Roberta McGee Keith, (dau. of Robert and Nancy
(McGee) Keith, of Kansas City, Mo).
194. iv. CHARLES Card well McCabe Howe , of Kan-
sas City, Mo., b. September 29, 1880, baptized
May 17, 1885, by Rev. C. C. McCabe, m. June 7,
1905, in Mexico, Mo.
Irma Barnes, (dau. of Adam Clark and Nannie
(Garnet) Barnes). The ancestors of Irma
Barnes Howe, wife of Charles Cardwell McCabe
Howe (No.-194).
Adam Clark Barnes, b. March 1, 1846, in No-
ble County, Ohio, m. February 13, 1873, Nannie
Garnet b. September 17, 1853, at Rappahannock
JOHN DAWSON HOWE.
(193)
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Court House, Virginia, dau. of William Newbold
Garnet, b. 1803, d. August 31, 1854, and Emeline
Cawthorn, his wife, b. November 21, 1821, living
in 1912 in Mexico Mo., dau. of James Cawthorn,
b. 1778, d. April 7, 1829, and his wife Leah Allen
b. April 11, 1779 ; d. April 7, 1828. James Caw-
thorn was a son of Richard Cawthorn, b. 1753;
and Catherine, his wife. Richard Cawthorn
was a Revolutionary soldier.
195. i. MARION Howe 7 , b. November 11, 1909.
196. v. WALTER Simpson Howe", of Kansas City, Mo.,
b. August 5, 1885, in Franklin, Pa.
LINEAGE OF ROBERTA McGEE (KEITH) HOWE,
wife of:
JOHN DAWSON HOWE, (No-193).
Col. William Randolph 1 , 1651-1711, of 'Turkey Island",
Va., m.
Mary I sham, dau. of Wm. and Gatherine (Bank) Isham,
their son:
Thomas Randolph 2 , of "Tuckhoe", 1683-1730; m. 1710.
Judith Churchill, of Middlesex County, Va., their daugh-
ter:
Mary Isham Randolph', b. 1716; m. in Henrico County,
Va.
Rev. Thomas Keith, the progenitor of the Keith family
in Virginia, b. 1696, in Scotland ; d. 1752, in Prince William
County, Va., their son.
Lieut. Isham Keith 4 , Lieut. Rev. War. d. 1787, in Fau-
quier County, Va., where his will is recorded. Married:
Charlotte , their son:
John Keith", d. Fauquier County, Va., 1825; married:
Sarah , their son :
152 SlGGINS AND
Smith Keith 6 , b. 1817, in Fauquier County, Va., died 1876,
in Leavenworth, Kansas ; married in Rappahannock County,
Va.
Margaret Corder, they came to Missouri in 1838, their
son:
Robert Keith 7 , b. 1845 ; married in Kansas City, Missouri.
Nancy McGee, their daughter :
Roberta McGee Keith 8 , married in Kansas City, Missouri.
(193) John Dawson Howe.
HOWE.
The Howe family traces its pedigree back to the time of
the Crusaders, if Alexander de Hoo, who wore the cross,
may be counted as a progenitor. He married Devorgilda,
daughter of King Alexander II of Scotland. The name next
appears as de Huse, a John de Huse receiving a grant of
land in 1066 in Berkshire, England. Other variations of the
orthography are Huys, Howys, Howes and finally the pres-
ent form, Howe. As evidence of honorable service the Howe
banner hangs high in the chapel of Henry VII. Oliver Crom-
well's chaplain, who was given the office on account of a ser-
mon the Protector happened to hear, was the learned and
devout John Howe. Among the emigrant ancestors were
Edward Howe, who came over in the Truelove in 1636.
John Howe, who came a few years earlier, and Thomas
Howe. The record of the family is a patriotic one. Many
representatives fought in the Colonial wars and in the Rev-
olution. Baxter Howe was Captain of artillery in the Revo-
lution ; Jaazaniah Howe was sergeant, and Dr. Estes Howe
was a surgeon, then there was Lieutenant Bezaleel Howe
who served through the Revolution, and was an auxiliary
lieutenant in Washington's own guard for the last six
months of the war. The old sword carried by Colonel
Ezekiel Howe in the Concord fight is one of the relics treas-
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ured by his descendants, The arms are described as gules,
a chevron argent between three cross-crosslets, or and
three wolves heads. Crest, a wyvern or dragon pierced
through the mouth with an arrow. These arms are sup-
posed to have been brought from England by John Howe
in 1630. The arms of Lord Chedworth, Henry Howe, are
similar. The crest however, is a dexter arm and the motto
is, "Justus et Propositi Tenax." The coat of arms, gold
upon a blue ribbon, is the badge worn by the Howes when
they gather for the family reunion. The first of these
meetings took place in 1871, at Harmony Grove, South
Framingham, Mass : 5,000 Howes were invited and 3,000 an-
swered the roll call. "We spent the day" said one "telling
one another how we loved the good old name of Howe."
Julia Ward Howe wrote a poem on the name which was
sung to the tune of "Do They Miss Me at Home?" "I par-
ticularly admire two Howes", one of the speakers of the day
said. "One was Jemima Howe, who was captured by the In-
dians, and the other was Samuel G. Howe who was cap-
tured by Julia Ward. I admire Jemima because she escaped,
and Dr. Howe because he didn't. Tribute was paid, of
course, to Elias Howe, who worked out the problem of the
sewing machine, and to the martyr of the family, Mrs.
Elizabeth Howe, of Ipswich, hung for witch-craft in 1692,
"whose virtues sanctified the altar and made her name il-
lustrious".
"ELEANOR LEXINGTON".
(179) EMELINE HARRIET (SIGGINS) HOWE:
The subject of this sketch, Emeline Harriet Howe, eld-
est daughter of Rachel Dawson and George Simpson Sig-
gins, was born in West Hickory, Forest Co., Pa., in 1844.
Her grandparents were among the early race of hardy
pioneers of the best type who helped to mould and fashion,
after the most substantial pattern, the civilization, the so-
ciety and the religion of the new world. The family were
Methodists from the days of John Wesley, whom they have
ever esteemed as a true spiritual descendent of the apostles,
and were co-laborers with him. She remembered with pleas-
154 SlGGINS AND
ure a visit of Bishop Matthew Simpson to her father's home.
The Bishop was a relative of the family — when, in answer
to his inquiries, she related with girlish confidence her re-
ligious experience, the good man placed his hands upon her
head and prayed that the blessing of the Father might rest
upon her.
Educated in the midst of the romantic scenery of the
banks of the Allegheny, she early acquired a love for nature
in all her beautiful attire which developed into a sanctified
passion. The Book of Nature with its broad open pages
speaking to her heart and pointing to that God who is the
author of all beauty, all grandeur and all sublimity. She ac-
quired such an education as the schools of the time afforded ;
but not content with this, she became a life-long and contin-
ual student — graduating in 1882 — in the first class of the C.
L. S. C, "The Pioneers," completing several courses in Nor-
mal and Bible Class work, and reading with delight many of
the choicest works of our best English authors. Her po-
etic nature and manifest talent found early exercise in fre-
quent and appreciated contributions to Peterson's, Godey's
and other magazines and periodicals. Her interpretation
of nature, if not deep, was always true, and her "verses",
as she persisted in modestly calling them, showed genuine
poetic feeling.
At twenty-three years of age she was married to Captain
Wesley C. Howe, who served his country gallantly during
the Great Rebellion, shared with Chaplain C. C. McCabe
the experiences of prison life, and left a splendid record for
distinguished military service.
She is the mother of five sons, who show a wonderful
affection for this gifted mother, and are receiving the in-
effaceable impress of her beautiful Christian life and char-
acter. When the cares of a family and the varied experi-
ences connectd with the large business enterprises in which
her husband was engaged, had developed and matured the
graces of Christian motherhood and womanhood, her poems
assumed a decided religious tone; and when at a still later
period she had received a fullness of the divine blessing
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many of her productions became rich in religious sentiment,
experience, and comfort. Her poems grow out. of her own
experience or her tender sympathy with others. They are
written with a purpose — the highest and the best. They
present redeemed human nature without error, exaggera-
tion, or awkwardness. She has found what others have al-
so found to be true, that to pen down the language of the
heart brings submission, relief, comfort and joy.
"The Christian Advocate," "Gospel in All Lands," "Divine
Life", "Magazine of Poetry" and other journals have been
enriched from her fertile pen. It is to be hoped that she
may be induced to select from her writings a volume for
early publication.
Mrs. Howe is a thorough and constant Bible student. Her
Bible is her one book above all others, and the vast multi-
tude of marked and annotated passages shows how fully
she has made the blessed volume her study. She seems
to have an intuitive perception of the spiritual meaning of
the word, so that she finds in every part of this store-house
an inexhaustible supply of food for the soul. This explains
her interest and activity, and her pronounced success, in all
religious and reformatory work. She was a member of the
first organized Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and
has filled with great efficiency many of the county and state
offices. The AVoman's Foreign and Home missionary soci-
eties have found in her a powerful friend and ardent sup-
porter. She is a ready speaker and graceful writer and
both voice and pen are in constant demand to assist in
Christian and philanthropic work.
No person can be more truly humble than the subject of
this sketch. She knows and freely declares that whatever
of worth is found in her character is due to the grace of
God, and her rich intellectual endowment and womanly
grace and culture are joyfully consecrated to the good of
men, and the greater glory of her Divine Friend. Though
often appearing in public, in her presence and utterances,
she ever adorns, with her reserve and modesty, and divin-
est type of womanhood. True to herself, to her family, to
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her friends, to her church and to her God, a genuine, active,
talented, consecrated, Christian. The benediction of many
friends abide with her.
REV. J. N. FRADENBURGH, Ph. D. L. L. D.
Mrs. Wesley Curtis Howe, (Emeline Harriet Siggins) was
the first President of the Ladies Circle of the Grand Army
of the Republic known as the Lincoln Circle No. 19, of Kan-
sas City, Missouri. She was a graduate of the first class
of C. L. S. C, and in a competitive examination at Cha-
tauqua, N. Y. after a series of studies and lectures on
"The New Education in the Church", of these only twenty-
four finished their papers, Mrs. Howe being one among the
number. Her poem, "From Height to Height" written on
her Class motto was read at Chautauqua. Her work done
as a student covered a period of many years beginning as
a normal student about 1876, she was graduated from this
department with honor; also with the Chautauqua Liter-
ary and Scientific Circle, Pioneer class in 1882. Won the
Bishop John H. Vincent gold medal, for passing the best
examination in a class of over two-hundred, which included
mnisters, professors, and others ranking high in the educa-
tional world. She has been fo rmany years a consistent
member of the Methodist Church, and has been a life long
contributor to the "Union Signal," "Christian Advocate,"
and other religious publications. The Class poem "From
Height to Height" follows :
FROM HEIGHT TO HEIGHT.
It is ever by sunny foot hills,
Our gladsome feet have trod,
That we reach the clearer uplands
That lead to the Mount of God.
We climb not the glittering icy peaks,
Of earth's mountains clad in snow,
WALTER SIMPSON HOWE.
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With the crash and roar of avalanche
And where cruel winds do blow;
But the hills that our Lord hath builded ;
Where the breath of his tender love
Is the wind that moveth the palm tree,
That lifts to his skies above.
And the spirit that leads us upward
Touches our lips with a song,
And the Hope, as each height appeareth,
Beareth our feet along.
But the bounds of our earthly vision,
Mark not the souls clear sight;
And the limits that hold the body,
Are naught to the spirit's flight.
Where the glorious hills are lifted,
Climbing height on height, we rise,
We scale them, and lo in the distance,
Inwrought in the heavenly skies,
Is the gateway whose open portal,
One saw who on Nebo trod,
And the light of its city forever,
Gleams far o'er the city of God.
They stand unattained in their splendor,
Reaching far in Shekinahs of bliss,
The peaks we may reach in that country,
By climbing the foothills in this.
HOWE.
(191) GEORGE GRANT HOWE, b. July 16, 1806; d.
September 3, 1881; m. January 12, 1832; Barbara Ellen
Armstrong, b. June 10, 1809; d. July 12, 1876: dau. of Rob-
ert and Sarah (Harold) Armstrong. George Grant Howe,
was a son of Simeon Howe, who was a son of Rev. William
Howe, of Northumberland.
158 SlGGINS AND
Wesley Curtis Howe, son of George Grant and Barbara
Ellen (Armstrong) Howe was born March 19, 1833 in
Clarion County, Pennsylvania, he attended the district
school near Shippensville and helped his father on the farm
until he was seventeen years of age, when he entered Al-
legheny College where he was a student for three or four
years, he went to California in 1854 and was interested in
mining until 1863 when he returned and took an active part
in the civil war as is shown by the letter to his son George,
which is published in this work. His mother and father were
devout and earnest Methodists George Grant Howe being
a fine singer and was a class leader for forty years. Wes-
ley Curtis Howe married Jan. 1, 1867 Emeline Harriet Sig-
gins (179), daughter of George Simpson Siggins (53), a
woman of fine character and exceptional attainment. Cap-
tain Howe's military record is one of which his posterity
may well be proud. A special order was issued to the regi-
ment complimenting him for gallant and meritorious con-
duct at Winchester on the field of battle September 19,
1864. He is at this time (1912) a resident of Kansas City,
Mo.
CAPTAIN WESLEY C. HOWE.
Col. Wesley C. Howe was born at Shippensville, Clarion
Co., March 19, 1833. Attended Allegheny College three
years. Taught school during his vacations; made the trip
to California in company with eight others going by the
way of Panama. Spent several years in Placer County
where he served as Superintendent of Public Schools.
In March 1862 he enlisted in Co. M. California Battallion
of Cavalry; he took part in thirty-two engagements; was
taken prisoner at Winchester, Va. ; spent some time in
Libby prison also five months in Danville prison. After his
release he was promoted to captaincy for gallantry at Win-
chester. At the close of the war, he was mustered out;
only twelve of the original company of one hundred and
six were spared to return to their homes. He organized the
WESLEY CURTIS HOWE, Jr.
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light Horse Cavalry in 1871, of which he was commissioned
captain and later promoted to major and aide-de-camp. In
1874 he was mustered into the National Guards and became
a member of the staff of Governor H. S. Huidekoper.
He married Emeline Harriet Siggins in 1867; they lived
at Hickory a while and then went to Franklin, Pa., in 1871
and later moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he died
July 16, 1914.
REV. JAMES GILFILLAN was b. in Cumbermathen,
Scotland 1812; m. Jane Robertson, b. in Scotland 1815; was
admitted to the Erie Conference 1853 ; received in full con-
nection 1855, Bishop Morris presiding; given Elders orders
1857 under Bishop Scott ; d. in Viena, Ohio, Jan. 4, 1864.
(180) HANNAH IRENE SIGGINS 5 , George S. 4 , George 3 ,
John 2 , William 1 , b. March 21, 1845, in Forest County, Pa.;
m. March 11, 1863 by Rev. J. F. Stocker.
James Gilfillan of Forest County, Pa. Children:
197. i. ALBA J. Gilfillan, b. June 3, 1864, at East
Hickory ; not m.
198. ii GENEVIEVE Gilfillan, July 21, 1867, Beaver
Valley, Pa., M. Sept. 23, 1887.
Charles W. Smith. Children:
199. i. JUSTINA Smith, b. July 5, 1888 at West
Hickory.
200. ii. FRANCES Smith, b. Sept. 26, 1890.
201. iii. CHARLES Walter Smith, b. Jan. 7, 1893.
202. iv. GERALD G. Smith, b. March 14, 1895. He
volunteered for service in the war with
Germany, before he was of draft age, en-
tered the "Training Camp" was sent to
France in August 1917, joined Gen. Persh-
ings command, and is in the ambulance
service.
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203. iii. GERTRUDE Gilfillan' 5 , b. Jan. 7, 1870, at
Beaver Falls, Pa., m. April 8, 1892, at Nebraska,
Forest Co. Pa.
Charles H. Walter. Children:
204. i. ALBA James Walter, b. Wednesday, June 23,
1893.
205. ii. RACHEL Dorothy Walter, b. Monday, May
14, 1894.
206. iii. FRANCES Siggins Walter, b. Saturday, Feb.
20, 1897.
207. iv. CHARLES Simpson Walter, b. Saturday,
June 9, 1906; d. December 18, 1906.
208. iv. RACHEL Dawson Gilfillan 6 , b. Nov. 3, 1876, Ne-
braska, Forest County, Pa.; d. Oct. 8, 1897, in
New York City. Her memorial services were
conducted by Rev. Dale, October 31, 1897, in Ne-
braska, Forest County, Pa. She had united with
the Church when extremely young. She was
corresponding secretary of both the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society and of the League,
also served for a time as President of the
Junior League, most of her life was spent in Ne-
braska, except one year when the family lived in
Meadville.
She graduated from the Clarion State Nor-
mal School in 1897. Her life though short was
spent in good works and she left a large circle
of friends to mourn her early decease.
SIGGINS.
(184) ELIZABETH SIGGINS', George S.\ George 3 ,
John 2 , William 1 , b. Sept. 21, 1851, in West Hickory, Pa. ; m.
May 18, 1871 by Rev. A. J. Hume.
Clinton S. Smith of Tylersburg, Pa. He enlisted August
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16, 1862, (C. W.) was discharged Dec. 26, 1863, by reason
of wounds in left arm and side, he was wounded in the
battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. His father
George Smith was born in 1788, and was a lieutenant in the
War of 1812, his mother Mary was born 1799.
Children :
209. i. Dr. GEORGE Perley Smith, D. O. 6 , of Clarks-
ville, Tenn.; b. June 3, 1872; m. Jan. 28, 1903.
Ella Campbell, b. May 7, 1871. Children:
210. i. CLINTON S. Smith 7 , b. Oct. 16, 1907.
211. ii. GEORGE Campbell Smith 7 , b. Aug. 21, 1910.
212. iii. FRANK Lester Smith 7 , b. Jan. 17, 1912.
213. ii. JUNE Siggins Smith 6 , b. May 8, 1873 ; m. June
1, 1901.
A. Clark Neff. Children:
214. i. ESTHER Elizabeth Neff 7 , b. June 28, 1902.
215. iii. ORION Hood Smith' 1 , b. Sept. 12, 1882; m. Oct.
Grace O'Dell. Children:
216. i. FRANCES L. Smith 7 , b. Jan. 9, 1910.
217. iv. RACHEL Ruth Smith 6 , b. April 9, 1884, d.
Oct. 1, 1897.
218. v. CHARLES Frances Smith 6 , b. June 6, 1888.
CAMPBELL.
a. i. JOSEPH Campbell 1 , was born and died in Butler
Co. Pa.; served in the war of 1812; married
Mary Story. Their son
b. 2. JOHN Campbell 2 , (1811-1876) b. in Butler Co.
Pa.; married Joanna Fleming, daughter of
William Fleming. Their son
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c. 3. CYRUS Campbell 3 , b. Feb. 15, 1847, in Butler Co.
Pa.; married Eliza Ann Campbell, b. Dec. 10,
1846, in Butler Co. Pa., daughter of Robert S.
and Nancy (Story) Campbell. Their daughter
d. 4. ELLA May Campbell 4 , b. May 7, 1871; Jan. 28,
1903 married Dr. George Perley Smith (209).
e. i. JAMES Campbell 1 , married Jane Cumberland.
Their son
f. ii ROBERT S. Campbell 2 , married Nancy Story,
daughter of William and Mary (Smith) Story.
Mary Smith was daughter of Matthew and
(Hindman) Smith. William Story
was born in Ireland, and served in the war of
1812.
g. iii. ELIZA Ann Campbell 3 , daughter of Robert S. and
Nancy Story Campbell, married Cyrus Campbell.
Their daughter
(d) iv. ELLA May Campbell 4 , married Dr. George Perley
Smith (209) son of Clinton S. Smith and Eliza-
beth Siggins (184).
COPY OF LETTER TO MRS. JAMES Y. SIGGINS.
Hon. James L. Connelly who was born in 1827 and was a
son of James Connelly of Franklin, Pa., writes from At-
lantic City, June 4, 1894, to Mrs. James Y. Siggins regard-
ing her husband.
"I had known your husband since about 1844; during
that long stretch of time, our friendship had never been
broken or disturbed in any way. The most cordial relations
always existed between us ; we never differed either in
business or political matters but lived as neighbors in peace
and harmony."
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When I was a boy about 15 years of age, residing at
Franklin, I often heard my father speak of grand-father
George Siggins and Thomas Dawson of Allegheny township,
Venango County, in terms of admiration and respect; as
model men; as good citizens of irreproachable character,
fine morals and high standing. I heard so much in their
praise so often spoken that I was anxious to meet them and
make their acquaintance. My father always taught me to
honor and respect the names of Siggins and Dawson. In
the year 1844 I was 17 years old, and began to clerk in the
Prothonotary's office of Venango County, under my father,
who was Prothonotary and residing in Franklin, and I oc-
cupied that position over five years, and during which time I
met grand-father George Siggins and his six sons, viz : Wil-
liam, George, Isaac C, Nathanial H., John and James Y.,
who often served as jurors. They frequently called at my
father's home in court week, and no one in the county was
more welcome or more hospitably received than they were.
They were all men of good character, good citizens, men of
intelligence and influence and of good morals and believed
in doing right and showing justice to others and stood up
boldly and manfully for the right in all things. They en-
joyed the respect and- esteem of their fellow citizens in a
high degree, and when they departed this life were sin-
cerely mourned, not only by relatives, but by hosts of ad-
miring friends an dneighbors.
Grand-father George Siggins was one of the early pio-
neers of Allegheny township, Venango County. He went
when a young man into the wilderness and with energy, in-
dustry and perserverance for his capital, cut down the for-
est and cleared up a farm, erected buildings, built fences,
made roads and assisted in building churches and school
houses and reared a family of six sons, educated them as
best he could and assisted each of them in procuring farms
when they were married. Such a man I consider a public
benefactor, a philanthropist, a friend to his race and as use-
ful to the public and entitled to as great honor and praise
as the successful general, the eminent statesman, or the
great lawyer or distinguished jurists who have served their
164 SlGGINS AND
country well. I often enjoyed the pleasure of hearing
Grand-father Siggins speak in class-meeting at Asbury
Chapel and also in Pleasantville. He was a man of deep
piety and strong religious conviction and his voice gave no
uncertain sound and it was easy to tell upon what founda-
tion he stood. He was a christian gentleman, good citizen
and the worthy father of a noble family. It is no wonder
the sons of such a man made good citizens.
After becoming acquainted with your late husband fifty
years ago at Franklin, when I was married in 1852, and set-
tled on a farm in Allegheny township, Venango County, I
became better acquainted with him and our acquaintance
ripened into close friendship; and when I moved to Pleas-
antville in the fall of 1861 and was elected Justice of the
Peace in 1864 and served as such for 4 years, Mr. Siggins
practiced law before me, and as attorney tried many law-
suits before me, with skill and ability. He always advocat-
ed the cause of his clients ably and eloquently. Then it was
that I came to know him better. In 1867 I was elected As-
sociate Judge of Venango County and Mr. Siggins was
elected Commissioner of the county. He performed his of-
ficial duties as Commissioner with signal ability and fidelity
to the satisfaction of the public. After my long acquaint-
ance of 50 fifty years with Mr. Siggins, the highest and most
truthful eulogy that I can pronounce upon his life and char-
acter, without the slightest exaggeration, would be to say,
that he was a kind husband, a loving and affectionate fa-
ther, a good citizen, loyal to his country and always loyal
to his friends a man of integrity and honesty and good
morals, he always gave good advice and set a good ex-
ample to others, a patriotic and public spirited citizen, who
always in official life performed his duties fearlessly, for the
public good ; and that in all his relations in life he acted the
part of a true gentleman to and with everybody. The rec-
ord of such a life will ever remain a bright memory and be
a pleasure to his surviving children and grandchildren.
While I am speaking of the Siggins family I wish to men-
tion the names of two sons of Nathaniel H. Siggins, viz: Pat
Other Families 165
and Sim, both young men working on their father's farm
at Stewarts Run, Venango County, when the war of the re-
bellion broke out. They laid down their farming imple-
ments and offered their services in defence of their country,
by enlisting in a Pennsylvania regiment of which John M.
McLain of Erie, Pa., was Colonel, and Mr. Strong Vincent
of Erie, was Lieut. Colonel. In 1862 the late M. C. Beebe
and I started from Harrisburg to Virginia to visit the sol-
dier boys of Pleasantville and Allegheny Township. We
found them in Camp at Hall's hill, near the Potomac River,
above the city of Alexandria, where eighty thousand sol-
diers were in camp. We slept in the tent with the boys at
night and took breakfast with them and the next day
Colonel McLain invited Mr. Beebe and I to take diner with
him, and we asked the Colonel about the boys — what kind
of soldiers they made. He said they were among the best
and bravest in the regiment and that W. F. House, Frank
Nolen, Morrison and others, whose names I cannot recall,
were brave and obedient and always ready and willing to
face the enemy by day or night, and Col. McLain said that
Pat and Sim Siggins were first-class soldiers, brave, cour-
ageous, always ready to march, ever obedient to orders,
never sick and ever ready to do their duty on all occasions
and in every emergency.
JAMES L. CONNELLY.
(55) James Young Siggins, brother of Isaac Connelly
Siggins, lived more than half his life in Pleasantville, Penn-
sylvania, where he had many warm friends who ever found
him a thoughtful and deliberate adviser. He was most
positive in his opinions of right and wrong and handled
questions of vice and immorality "without gloves". In
Politics he was a Republican but he often denounced his
party when he did not approve of their methods.
By inheritance and education he was a Methodist. In
childhood his father had taken him to hear John Wesley
preach and he was proud of the fact that his maternal
grandfather had been a close friend of John Wesley and
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went about with him and assisted him in his work of es-
tablishing and maintaining churches in Ireland.
His wife Sarah Ball Siggins died at the age of 88 years.
(55) JAMES YOUNG SIGGINS 4 , of Pleasantville, Pa. ;
b. March 15, 1815, in Venango County, Pa.; d. May 20,
1894, in Pleasantville, Pa.; m. Dec. 20, 1840, in Balltown,
Pa.
Sarah Ball, b. February 12, 1820; dau. of Isaac Ball,
founder of Balltown. She died in 1908, aged 88. Was a
life-long member of the United Brethren Church. A kind
neighbor and devoted Christian mother. Children:
219. i. OLIVER Goldsmith Siggins 5 , b. 1842, in Pleas-
antville; died 1862; aged 20 years.
220. ii. JAMES Young Siggins, Jr. 5 , b. 1846, in Pleas-
antville; died 1916, in Bradford, Pa.; m.
Hannah McCulloch, dau. of Hugh and Harriet
(Dawson) McCulloch. Children:
CHARLES Siggins".
221
222
223
224
i. HATTIE Siggins' 3 .
ii. WILLIAM Siggins".
v. MARY Siggins".
225. v. DONALD Siggins".
226. vi. TRACY Siggins".
227. vii. MABLE Siggins".
228. iii. SARAH Jane Siggins 5 , b. in Pleasantville, Pa. ;
m.
Capt. Judson Blanchard, (C. W.), no issue.
229. iv. LINNAEUS M. Siggins 5 , b. in Pleasantville,
Pa., 1848; m. Oct. 17, 1872.
Frances Elizabeth Shreve, b. August 21, 1851, in
Pleasantville; dau. of Caleb J. (b. April 15,
1828, in Brown Co., O.), and Margaret L. Kel-
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ler, b. Nov. 23, 1823, in Rochester, N. Y. ; m.
Sept. 16, 1847). Children:
230. i. ZELMA M. Siggins 6 , b. Oct. 17, 1875, in
Pleasantville, Pa.
231. ii. NELLIE Belle Siggins 6 , b. Aug. 3, 1879, in
Pleasantville; m. June 22, 1904, in Custer
City, Pa.
Rev. H. H. Barr, son of Henry Clay and
Catherine (Sharrow) Barr. Henry C.
Barr was a volunteer in Co. E, lOYh Reg.
Pennsylvania Volunteers, U. S. A. He
served three years, was twice wounded.
After the war he engaged in the lumber
business in Clarion County, Pa. Rev. Barr
is now living in Warren, Pa., where he has
a pastorate.
232. iii. FLORENCE G. Siggins 6 , b. June 5, 1884, at
Custer City; d.
233. iv. BERTHA C. Siggins 6 , b. January 28, 1887,
in Custer City; m. September 16, 1916;
Dr. H. H. Brown.
234. v. LAWRENCE W. SIGGINS', b. 1850, in Pleas-
antville, Pa. ; m. 1st
Bernice Lovell; m. 2nd
Nellie Holeman. Children:
235. i. LEWIS Siggins 6 , b. in Pleasantville, Pa.
236. ii. HOWARD L. Siggins", b. in Pleasantville,
Pa.
237. vi. GEORGE P. Siggins 5 , b. 1852, in Pleasantville,
Pa.; d. 1869.
238. vii. WILLARD Siggins n , b. 1855, in Pleasantville,
Pa. ; m.
Mary Henderson. Children :
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239. i. MANLEY Siggins 6 .
240. ii. VERA Siggins 6 .
241. viii. BELLE Siggins 5 , b. 1857, in Pleasantville, Pa.;
m.
Charles Lord.
242. ix. CASSIUS Siggins 5 , b. in Pleasantville; d. at
the age of 7 years.
(56) MARGARET JANE SIGGINS 4 , George 1 , John 2 ,
William 1 , b. June 22, 1818, in Venango County, Pa.; d.
August 26, 1853, in Monono, Iowa; m. May 4, 1837.
Cyrus J. Richardson, (C. W.), son of Caleb and Mehita-
bell Richardson. Children:
243. i. GEORGE Siggins Richardson 5 , (C. W.). They
had three children:
244. i. HOMER Richardson 6 .
245. ii. ALICE Richardson 6 .
246. iii. JAMES Richardson .
247. ii. CYRUS J. Richardson, Jr.
248. iii. PHEOBE Jane Richardson 5 ; m.
Matthew Hunter (H 23). They had eleven child-
ren:
249. i. JOHN Park Hunter .
250. ii. MARY Jane Hunter 6 .
251. iii. EFFIE Hunter 6 .
252. iv. ELLA Hunter 6 .
253. v. PHEOBE Hunter 6 .
254. vi. EDWIN Hunter 6 .
255. vii. PEARL Hunter .
256. viii. VIOLET Hunter , m. Pierce,
and had one dau.
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257. MADIE Pierce.
258. ix? MABLE Hunter 8 .
259. x. SYLVIA Hunter 6 .
260. xi. ELSIE Hunter 6 , m. Boutell,
and had one son
261. HAROLD Boutell.
262. iv. ISAAC Homer Richardson'"', (C. W.; d. May 5,
1864, in the "Battle of the Wilderness."
JUDGE WILLIAM SIGGINS
(5) "Judge William Siggins*, born in Ireland, May 12,
1789 ; son of John Siggins, who died in 1801 ; came about
two years later with his brother George, to Pithole, in
Venango County, Pa., then an almost uninhabited wilder-
ness.
It is related that, when the few settlers were holding an
old fashioned revival meeting, William Siggins was con-
verted; that he received the power and the pious impulse
which did not forsake him through all his active life.
In 1807 he settled in Brokenstraw, on the present site
of Youngsville, at the place now occupied by his son Wil-
liam Findlay Siggins.
There was no house of worship in the neighborhood
then, and four years elapsed with little opportunity for
religious services.
In 1811, however, he had the privilege of going to Mead-
ville, to attend the first camp-meeting ever held in this part
of Pennsylvania.
He married in 1812, and at that time built a grist-mill
at Pithole; in 1815 he returned to Youngsville and re-
mained until his death on the 15th of July, 1875. His wife
died in 1855.
Judge Siggins, was a life-long, fervent Christian. He
170 SlGGINS AND
had not only "a sound mind in a sound body" but a power-
ful mind in a powerful body, and it was a pity he had not
had the advantages of a thorough academic training,
which would have made him more skilled in the use of the
weapons nature had put in his hands.
He bore an active part in the War of 1812, and was with
Commodore Perry at Lake Erie.
His mind was admirably adapted for judicial labors, a
fact sufficiently attested by his long service as a justice
of the peace, and his long list of decisions (of which it is
recorded there were four thousand), not one of which, it
is said, was ever reversed.
He was decidedly impulsive in disposition, though his
strong sense of justice usually checked him from making
an obverse use of his natural force ; his parents were from
the "North of Ireland" and were of Scotch-Irish blood."
He was but four years of age when his parents emi-
grated to America. There were few books to be obtained
when he went to school — Webster's spelling book and The
Testament were about all he had to use when he attended
school.
He served the courts of Warren and Venango Counties
in all about sixty years. He served as Constable for twelve
years. Then he was made High Constable, an office which
carried with it very little power until the Judge had a law
passed by the State Legislature giving the High Constable
the right to transact all business heretofore delegated to
the regular constable. It resulted in the business all falling
to Judge Siggins as he had foreseen, and the profits of the
same falling to him. That law is still in force at the pres-
ent time.
He lived for a while on Stewarts Run where he and
Judge Connely operated a saw mill in partnership. He
was a member of the Jury when the first court in Warren
County was held.
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Judge Siggins married in Centre County, Pa., May 8,
1812, Polly Wilson; they were the parents of thirteen
children, eight sons and four daughters. Two of the sons,
Nathaniel and William Findlay reside in Youngsville ; their
youngest son, Porter Siggins, served during the late war
in the III Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and ren-
dered distinguished assistance to the northern cause, tak-
ing part in nineteen engagements ; he was killed at An-
tietam July 20, 1864, by a bullet which passed through a
pocket Testament, to his heart, causing instant death. The
Testament is now in the possession of his brother Nathan-
iel Siggins of Youngsville.
Judge Siggins made his home for many years with his
son William Findlay, in Youngsville, and it was from this
home that his spirit took its flight Thursday, July 15, 1875,
at the age of 86 years, 2 months and 3 days. A short time
previous to his death, he made all arrangements for his
funeral and burial. He wished Henry P. Kinnear to take
charge and Elder Norton to preach his funeral sermon,
but as he was unable to be present, the Rev. Mr. Clark
officiated; he had also selected the text from which he
wished the sermon preached ; it was from Matthew, eighth
chapter, 11th and 12th verses; he named the following:
John McKinney, Joshua F. Currie, W. D. Belnap, J. Phil-
lips, W. J. Davis and David Bowman, to act as pall bearers
at his funeral.
Of his son, William Findlay, John B. White of Kansas
City, Missouri, writes the following:
(267) William Findlay Siggins was born in Youngsville,
Pa., in 1822. He married September 4, 1850, Edith D.
Nelson, born in Busti, Chautauqua County, N. Y. They
had a family of three sons — Clarence, Ernest and Frank
Morris. Clarence is a graduate of the Randolph Institute ;
Ernest is a physician and surgeon, was graduated from
Cincinnatti Medical College in 1877; and F. Morris is a
prescription and drug clerk. Mrs. Edith Siggins was a
daughter of Normandus and Prudence (Bushnell) Nelson.
172 SlGGINS AND
They were born and married in Herkimer County, N. Y.,
and settled in Busti, N. Y., in January, 1823, where they
died. "Squire" W. F. Siggins had held all the town offices
and served as school director twelve years, burgess two
terms, justice of the peace two years, also held other minor
offices and was for a time Deputy Sheriff and served as
constable for several years. He was a teacher for twenty
years during his early life and taught the first graded
school in Youngsville; he was postmaster under James K.
Polk. He was engaged in the lumber business in 1873.
His wife, Edith Diana, was also an early school teacher.
He was a son of Judge William and Polly (Wilson) Sig-
gins, who were both born in Ireland of Scotch and Irish
parentage. He was born in 1789 and came to Centre
County in 1793, where his parents died. Judge William
and Polly were married in 1812. He settled in Broken-
straw township in 1807, and after his marriage resided at
Pithole until 1815, when they returned to Youngsville.
They had thirteen children, five of whom were living in
1887.
Judge William Siggins was a leading and influential
man; was a justice of the peace for many years and was
elected Associate Justice of Warren County in 1842. Squire
W. F. Siggins inherited a legal and analytical mind. He
was a great reader, a close student and was possessed of
a very retentive memory. He was an eloquent speaker
and as he had ready command of language, he always
proved a formidable opponent in debate. In politics he
was a Democrat. He was a man of firm opinions, as would
be expected from his Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was prac-
tical and fair and consistent in his judgment and was a
loyal and good citizen, respected and loved by those who
knew him best. He was ever loyal to his country and tried
to enter the service of the United States during the Civil
War but was prevented by ill health. He was frequently
called upon to lecture on educational subjects. He with
several of his brothers, made a trip to California in the
early days of the gold excitement. They went by boat
around Cape Horn — returning by the Isthmus of Panama.
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I think it was in July, 1875, that I assisted in getting
up a Fourth of July celebration. It proved to be a great
and enthusiastic event for the village in Youngsville and
the Valley of the Brokenstraw. The attendance was un-
usually large; everybody came and we had all kinds of
races, including the tub races on the Brokenstraw Creek;
we had the greased pig and the climbing of the greased
pole ; we had perfect order and it was probably the largest
Fourth of July celebration ever held in Youngsville. W. F.
Siggins was the orator of the day and the large attentive
audience helped to inspire him to make one of the most
appropriate and eloquent addresses I ever heard on any
occasion. He characterized Uncle Sam in dress from hat
to shoes and features. I had the great pleasure of intro-
ducing this Uncle Sam to this large assembly. His make
up was perfect and his address most inspiring.
He spoke of his sons, the original thirteen states, as a
father would speak of his boys. The early history of the
Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War
and on down to the Civil War and of the sons that had up
to that time been added to his family. Like a father, he
mourned because he had to use force in thrashing his
rebellious sons, and in a very unique manner, he feelingly
spoke of these recalcitrant boys — now giving him hope
and joy in laying down their arms and coming back to the
old home. It was a speech never to be forgotten by those
who heard it.
Mr. Siggins had a wonderfully good and talented wife;
she was a typical wife, mother and home maker, and was
loved by all the neighbors and by all who were fortunate in
having her friendship and acquaintance. She was of a su-
perior family, and inherited rare virtues from the Nelson
and the Bushnell families. Herself a great student, she
fully realized the value of a good practical education for
her children and employed every means in her power for
their advancement. She died in Youngsville.
The late B. F. Morris, once editor and publisher of the
174 SlGGINS AND
Warren Ledger recently wrote the following letter regard-
ing the subject of this sketch :
"Your letter — of April 24th, ult., asking if I would write
a sketch of your father and his acquirements, to be incor-
porated in a book now in contemplation by Mrs. J. B. White,
bearing upon the Siggins Family, is at hand.
"While past the age of writing for publication, I cannot
deny your request to make an attempt to portray your fa-
ther's qualities as friend, father, citizen and thinker. Of
course, he was human and possessed qualities belonging
thereto, as is the case of all who bear the human form.
"One of his strong points was that of personal friend-
ship. He would sacrifice much for a real friend. W. F.
Siggins was too much of a Celt in blood to bear physical
or mental punishment without giving resistance. He could
topple down the cob-houses of his opponents when his ire
was up, to the discomfiture of the opposing force, and then
smile at their confusion. Physically, he was not a strong
man, but mentally he could summon up a power which
tipped over whole "Skillets of minnies" and there was noth-
ing left on the table for the sustenance of the hungry ag-
gressor.
"W. F. Siggins needed no 'preparedness' for his intel-
lectual battles, but seemed always prepared for emergencies,
as he was not only a reader, but a thinker. Beware of a
thinker !
"W. F. Siggins was undoubtedly indebted to his father,
the late Judge William Siggins, for his natural legal cast
of mind, for he did understand the fundamental principles
of the law. It was said of Judge William Siggins, who for
years had served as Justice of the Peace, that never one
of his decisions was reversed by the Higher Court. W. F.
Siggins was Justice of the Peace for many years to the en-
tire satisfaction of the Youngsville community, and Youngs-
ville was and is known for its mental acquirements. They
measured his judical ability and by their votes pronounced
him a judicial success.
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"I wish to say further that W. F. Siggins, had he been
called upon, was fitted to serve the public in any grade,
from Justice of the Peace to that of Member of Congress,
better than many who go to Congress from many districts
in the several states. He had quickness of perception and
possessed a natural legal talent which the most crafty could
not compass. He was independent in thinking and fearless
in action. It is a truth that often the best fitted are not
awarded the honors in politics. Too many times party
rules instead of Justice. Your father was fitted for public
service, an original thinker and an honest man."
"I will add that I well knew Mr. W. F. Siggins and prized
his friendship. He was my friend and I was his friend and
I am glad to pay him this just tribute. One of his last acts
was to draw the will of Joshua Currie whereby he left a
bequest to build the Industrial Department of the Youngs-
ville School, which Mr. Currie had confidentially promised
me he would provide for."
(Signed) J. B. WHITE.
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(5) JUDGE WILLIAM SlGGINS.
On the 15th day of June 1869, a number of the surviving
soldiers of the war of 1812-15 met in Warren, Pennsylvania.
Hon. William Siggins was chosen president of the meeting
and Robert Mills, secretary. They passed resolutions re-
garding the granting of pensions to soldiers of the last war
with England, and were hospitably entertained by L. L.
Lowry, Esq., at the Carver House, with a dinner sumptu-
ous in its appoitnments. The veterans present were as fol-
lows : Zachary Eddy, of Warren, aged ninety eight years ;
John Geer of Glade township, aged seventy-eight years;
Emanuel Crull, of Tidioute, aged eighty years; Caleb
Thompson, of Pine Grove township, aged eighty-four years ;
Isaac Davis, of Brokenstraw township, aged seventy-seven
years ; John Brown of Brokenstraw township, aged seventy-
three years. WILLIAM SIGGINS, of Youngsville, aged
eighty years; Isaac Lopus, of Pittsfield, aged seventy-seven
years ; Elisha Sterling of Limestone, aged eighty-one years.
Ira Badger, of Pine Grove, aged seventy-four years, and
Joseph Ackley, of the same township, aged seventy-nine
years, were also veterans of the same war, and living at
that time, but were unable to attend the meeting.
(Hist, of Warren Co., Pa., p. 137).
LINEAGE.
THOMAS Siggins, of Walsingrange, county Wexford ;
his son
MATTHEW Siggins, m. Margaret Codd ;
their son
Other Families 177
RICHARD Siggins, m. Margaret Sinot;
their son
EDWARD Siggins, of Balla, m. * ;
their son
WILLIAM Siggins, m. Mary Taylor ;
their son
JOHN Siggins, m. Sarah Hood;
their son
WILLIAM Siggins, m. Mary (Polly) Wilson.
(5) JUDGE WILLIAM SIGGINS 3 , of Youngsville,
Pennsylvania, b. May 12, 1789, in Ireland ; d. July 15, 1875,
in Youngsville, Pa., at the home of his son, William Find-
ley Siggins; m. May 8, 1812.
Mary (Polly) *Wilson, b. September 24, 1795; d. Feb.
ruary 18, 1855. They Joined the Methodist Church in
Youngsville, in 1820. Children :
263.* i. SAMUEL Wilson Siggins 4 , b. February 9, 1813 ;
m. Julia Ann Mead; dau. of Ashel and g. dau.
of Darius (1216) (see Mead family elsewhere
in this volume).
264.* ii. JOHN SIGGINS 4 , b. June 4, 1815;
m. Eliza Morgan.
265.* iii. NANCY G. Siggins 4 , b. August 6, 1817 ;
m. Philip Mead (1260) (see Mead family).
266.* iv. MARY W. (Polly) Siggins 4 , b. March 20, 1820;
m. Elija Mead (see Mead family).
267.* v. WILLIAM Findley Siggins 4 , b. May 30, 1822;
m. Edith Diennie Nelson.
268.* vi. ISAAC Siggins 4 , b. October 18, 1824 ; d. in Cali-
fornia, 1910; m.
Eliza Kinnear, dau. of Robert and Jane (Alex-
ander) Kinnear).
178 SlGGINS AND
269.* vii. IRVINE S. Siggins 4 , b. March 6, 1828;
m. Dorcas Filer.
270.* viii. NATHANIEL Siggins 4 , b. August 7, 1830 ;
m. Ann Blakesley.
271. ix. JEFFERSON Siggins 4 , b. December 18, 1832;
in Youngsville; d. January 31, 1871; in Irvin-
ton, Pa., and was buried in Youngsville the fol-
lowing Sunday; he was a member of the Im-
proved Order of Red Men, and the members
of that Order attended the funeral in a body,
a short service consisting of remarks and a
prayer by the "Venerable Prophet" words by
the "Sachem," dropping of evergreens on the
coffin and finally the solemn word "Farewell" by
each member was touching in the extreme.
272. x. SUSAN Jane Siggins 4 , b. January 29, 1835 ;
m. Benjamin Metlar; before her marriage she
taught the primary school for $4.00 a week and
boarded herself. They had two daughters:
Margaret, who married Mr. Bush; and Anna,
who married Mr. Ford.
273. xi. ELIZA Ann Siggins 4 , b. August 12, 1838 ;
m. Albert Hamlin ; they had one daughter :
GEORGIA Hamlin, who died at the age of
14 years.
274. xii. DAVID Porter Siggins 4 , b. May 9, 1840 ; never
married. He was a soldier in the civil war, he
was killed by a bullet that passed through a
pocket testament to his heart; at the battle of
Peach Tree Creek, in Georgia.
(263). SAMUEL WILSON SIGGINS 4 , was a lumber-
man in Franklin, Pa. ; he married and all his children were
born in or near Franklin ; b. February 9, 1813, in Youngs-
ville, Pa. ; m. Julia Ann Mead. dau. of Ashel and gr.-dau. of
Darius and Ann (Hoffman) Mead. Their children were:
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275. i. POLLY Siggins\ married
Solomon Grizzle, a farmer, and had:
ALICE Grizzle , m. Jasper Swan, a farmer.
HENRY Grizzle".
SUSIE Grizzle 11 , m. a farmer in Nebraska.
DORA Grizzle 6 , m. a machinist in New Mexico.
MILDRED Grizzle'", m. a farmer.
FRED Grizzle 6 .
276. ii. JOHN Finley Siggins 5 , m.
Clara Clem; they had one son:
277. PETER Siggins 6 , who lives at Bartlesville,
Okla.
278. iii. SIMEON Siggins', was an engineer on the Han-
nibal and St. Joseph Railroad in early times ; m.
Lucy Glass ; they had :
279. WILLIAM Siggins 6 , a farmer, married.
280. ALBERT Siggins 6 , at one time employed in
the Yellow Stone Park.
281. CHARLES Siggins 6 , a farmer, married.
282. LIZZIE Siggins 6 , married.
283. ARTHUR Siggins 6 , a farmer.
284. iv. CASS Wilson Siggins n , of Twin Falls, Idaho,
married :
Emma R. Bomar, dau. of Alexander Bomar, grand-
daughter of George Bomar, gr-granddaughter
of Bomar, who came with La-
fayette, and helped the Americans gain their
independence, and afterward settled in Virginia.
Their children are:
285. ALBERT Bomar Siggins", a contractor and
builder; married:
Leona Powell of Oneida, New. York.
286. ' ELLA Alice Siggins 6 , m.
180 SlGGINS AND
287. ARCHA Byrd Siggins 6 , is with the Beatty-
Kellog Co.
288. CLARENCE Red Siggins 6 , a contractor in the
oil fields.
289. LELA Ruth Siggins 6 , a student in schools of
Twin Falls, Idaho.
290. v. JEHU Siggins 5 , died young.
291. vi. SUSAN Siggins 5 , lives in Helena, Mont.
292. vii. WILLIAM A. Siggins 5 , m. 1st: Mollie Sanders,
and had one son:
293. NORTON Siggins 6 .
William A. Siggins m. 2nd, Nettie Nevins and had :
294. GRACE Siggins 6 ,
295. JESSE Siggins 6 ,
296. VIOLET Siggins 6 .
(264). JOHN SIGGINS 4 , b. in Youngsville, Pa., June
4, 1815; m. July 4, 1838, in Youngsville.
(418). Eliza Morgan (see Morgan family), b. July 20,
1815; d. August 31, 1904. Children:
297. i. CHARLES Siggins 5 , d. young.
298. ii. DR. JOHN Jacob Siggins 5 , who married and
settled in Philadelphia, and had two children:
Charles and Feleta.
(267). WILLIAM FINDLEY SIGGINS 4 , of Youngs-
ville, Pennsylvania ; b. May 30, 1822 ; d. September 9, 1899,
in Youngsville; m. September 4, 1850, at the Allen House,
in Jamestown, New York, by the Rev. H. G. Blinn, to :
Edith Diennie Nelson, b. April 26, 1826 ; in Busti, Cha-
tauqua Co., New York, d. December 16, 1915 (dau. of Nor-
mandus and Prudence (Bushnell) Nelson). (See Bushnell
family.) Children:
299/
300/
301. :
Other Families i8i
CLARENCE Herbert Siggins', b. June 2, 1851.
i. DR. ERNEST L. Siggins 5 , b. July 25, 1853.
ii. FRANK Morris Siggins 5 , b. May 23, 1867.
(269). IRVINE S. SIGGINS 4 , b. March 6, 1828, in
Youngsville, Pa., married :
Dorcas Filer, b. June 9, 1828 ; dau. of Roger Filer.
Children :
302. i. VICTOR I. Siggins 6 , b. January 11, 1859 ;
married and had:
303. i. GOLDEN Siggins", b. April 17, 1886.
304. ii. DE LACE Siggins" 1 , Post Master at Grand Junc-
tion, Mich. b. July 6, 1860, in Youngsville, Pa. ;
m. Sept. 18, 1886, in Keeler, Mich.
Laura M. Cooley, b. December 9, 1865 ; dau. of Eg-
bert and Elizabeth Cooley, of Keeler, Mich., and
had:
i. BLANCHE L. Siggins 1 -, b. June 14, 1892.
WILLIAM Roger Siggins 1 , b. December 17,
1864; married and had:
i. BERTHA M. Siggins , b. April 27, 1892;
ii. HAROLD R. Siggins", b. June 7, 1894.
IDA Siggins"', b. August 14, 1867.
BERTHA L. Siggins"', b. January 3, 1870.
BESSIE L. Siggins*, b. April 19, 1876.
(270) NATHANIEL SIGGINS 4 , was one of the Pioneers
of Warren County, Pennsylvania, where, with the excep-
tion of a few years he lived in California, he spent his en-
tire life. His tales of early days when the country around
Youngsville was wild and unsettled, were intensely inter-
esting; he served all through the Civil War, was captured
and confined four months in Belle Isle prison, where he
305.
306.
iii
307.
308.
309.
iv
310.
v.
311.
vi
182 SlGGINS AND
endured many privations ; he was a member of the Robert
A. Kinnear Post of the Grand Army of the Republic ; and
for many years a member of the Methodist Church ; b. Au-
gust 7, 1830, in Youngsville; d. January 24, 1918, in Youngs-
vilie; m. July 29th, 1865.
Ann Blakesley, b. October 4, 1841 ; dau. of Benjamin
Franklin and Abigail (O'Dell) Blakesley. Children:
312. i. EARL James Siggins n , b. November 9, 1870;
m. November 18, 1896 ;
Minnie W. Niles, they had one daughter:
313. i. IVA Siggins .
314. ii. ELLEN M. Siggins"', b. December 1, 1871; m.
April 22, 1903 ;
Percie 0. Wilcox, of Pittsfield, Pa., they have two
children :
315. i. GARNER N. Wilcox '\
316. ii. GORDON E. Wilcox".
(299). CLARENCE HERBERT SIGGINS, b. June 2,
1851, in Youngsville, Pa.; m. May 13, 1874, in Plummer,
Venango Co., Pa.
Catherine Louise Black, b. September 29, 1855, in
Rockland County, N. Y., dau. of George and
Metta (Ackin) Black. She came in her early
"teens" with her parents to the Pennsylvania
Oil Country; she was educated at Chamberlaine
College where she met her future husband to
whom she was married at the age of eighteen;
she is a member of the Episcopal Church, also
of the Order of Eastern Star and the Woman's
Club and is active in each of these Societies.
Children :
317.* i. LILLIAN Wealthy Siggins', b. May 10, 1875;
m. Edward Palmer Leonard.
Other Families 183
318.* ii. CLARENCE Ackin Siggins"', b. April 28, 1878;
m. Leona Coates.
(300). DR. ERNEST L. SIGGINS"', attended the com-
mon schools of Warren County, until the age of fourteen
when he entered the Chamberlaine Collegiate Institute at
Randolph, N. Y. ; he commenced teaching school at the age
of seventeen and when nineteen entered Mount Union Col-
lege where he was a class mate of Ex-Secretary of State,
Hon. Philo C. Knox; graduated at the Cincinnati Medical
college in 1877 ; practiced his profession until 1893 ; when
he was appointed Microscopits of the United States Depart-
ment of Apriculture, and in 1916 was stationed at Denver,
Colorado. He was b. July 25, 1853, in Brokenstraw Town-
ship, Warren Co., Pa.; m. Dec. 24, 1882, in Columbus, Ne-
braska, by the Rev. Samuel Goodale, to
Maude M. George ; b. December 2, 1859, in Gulph,
Canada; dau. of Frederick and Susan (Petite)
George. Children :
319. i. SUSAN Petite Siggins , b. September 24, 1883,
at Pierre, Neb.
320. ii. FREDERICK William Siggins'-, b. February 24,
1888, at Platsmouth, Nebraska; d. July 26, 1889.
321. iii. EDITH Mary Siggins , b. September 15, 1890,
in Platsmouth.
322. iv. ERNEST Leland Siggins , b. July 15, 1899, in
Chicago, 111.
(301 FRANK MORRIS SIGGINS', of Meadville, Pa., b.
May 13, 1867, in Youngsville, Pa.; m. October 23, 1889, in
Youngsville, Pa.
Alice Bertha Agrelius, b. January 9, 1868, in Youngs-
ville, (dau. of John William and Sarah Jane (Demmon)
Agrelius) ; was a graduate of the Youngsville High School
Class of 1887-8 ; taught school until her marriage to Frank
Morris Siggins in 1889 ; is a member of the Tuesday After-
noon Study Club, Past Worthy Matron of the Order of
184 SlGGINS AND
Eastern Star, served as Grand Ruth in the cabinet of the
Worthy Grand Matrons of Pennsylvania, 1914-15; is a
member of the Presbyterian Church. Children:
323. i. HOWARD William Siggins 6 , b. July 10, 1893,
in Meadville ; graduate of Meadville High School
June 9, 1910. Attended Allegheny College 1910-
11; Phi Delta Thelta. Entered the Pennsyl-
vania State Forestry Academy at Mont Alto in
September, 1911 ; graduated at the head of his
class August 12, 1914; employed by the De-
partment of Forestry on Topographic and Stock
surveys one year. On September 1, 1915, he was
promoted to Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Forest
Protection, which position he now holds ; is a
member of the Presbyterian Church at Harris-
burg, Pa. Enlisted July 21, 1917, in the 10th
Reserve Engineers Co. C, Forestry Regiment;
was in training at American University Camp
during the summer of 1917.
324. ii. MARION Lucile Siggins 6 , b. September 8, 1896,
in Meadville ; graduate of the High School May
28, 1914; attended Allegheny College 1914-15;
member Delta Chapter Alpha Chi Omega; en-
tered Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, 1916, for
the study of Domestic Arts and Sciences.
325. iii. FRANK Morris Siggins, Jr. 5 , b. January 1,
1901, in Meadville, Pa. ; is at this time, January,
Bertha Agrelius, b. Jan. 9, 1868, in Youngsville, Pa., daugh-
ter of John William and Sarah Jane (Demmon) Agrelius.
1917, a Junior in the Meadville High School ; he
is an enthusiastic "Boy Scout," and has earned
seven merit badges.
(301). FRANK MORRIS Siggins 3 , son of William
Findley and Edith Diana (Nelson) Siggins, born May 13,
1867, in Youngsville, Pa. ; married October 23, 1889, Alice
Received his education in Youngsville public schools. Start-
ed in the drug business in St. Edwards, Neb. Served as a
clerk in the same line at Pierre, S. Dak., Youngsville, Pa.,
Other Families 185
Buffalo, N. Y., Morristown, Pa., and Oil City, Pa. Took
the junior course in Chicago College of Pharmacy, grad-
uating from the Philadelphia College in 1888. Started to
clerk in the drug store of which he is now one of the pro-
prietors, in 1889, at Meadville, Pa., being in the same loca-
tion for a period of twenty-seven years. He has devoted
much time to the study of the conservation of our Natural
Resources and has delivered many interesting lectures on
this subject. He with his wife and family belong to the
Presbyterion Church of Meadville, Pa. He is a member
of the Masonic Brotherhood, Elks and other organizations.
Served one year on the Meadville School Board, resigning
on account of ill health. Still active in the drug business
(1917). One of Meadville's most prosperous citizens.
From the "Meadville Evening Republican" :
"F. M. Siggins, at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
Pharmaceutical Association, held at Forest Park, has just
been awarded the prize offered for the best paper on 'Com-
mercial Pharmacy.' This was the paper on the use of coal
tar derivatives in medicine, such as headache powders and
pain remedies, and was largely copied in the medical and
pharmaceutical papers. The paper dealt with the subject
at length, and served as a timely warning against the too
free use of these remedies, with valuable explanations of
their danger to health. Mr. Siggins is a member of the
drug firm of Ballinger and Siggins, of Meadville, Pa., and
is considered one of the best pharmacists in the state.
'Meadville's popular druggist' is a term of one meaning
when applied to a man who can, like Mr. Siggins, land the
nomination for school director on both Republican and
Democratic tickets on the same day."
(301). John W. Agrelius was born in Jarsted, Sweden,
November 2, 1838, to Isaac W. and Ina C. Agrelius and died
Sunday, February 6, 1916. His ancestors were represent-
ative and influential citizens of their country. John, an
uncle of the deceased, filled the appointment of Lord Cham-
186 SlGGINS AND
berlain in the Court of Bernadotte Charles XIV, the French-
man who served as Sweeden's King. Mr. Agrelius, because
of his aversion to the customary planned marriages among
those of rank, was disinherited and cast adrift. Isaac W.
Agrelius was married to Ina C. Anderson in Feb., 1836.
To them nine children were born, one dying at the age of
two years. John W. Agrelius, with his parents, four broth-
ers and one sister, came to America and settled in Broken-
straw township in 1851. Two sons and one daughter were
born after their arrival. Two brothers enlisted in the
Civil War, Charles in the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and
Peter in the 83 Pennsylvania Volunteers. Both were cap-
tured and confined in Andersonville Prison ; were removed
from thence to Columbia, S. C, where they died. Mr.
Agrelius is survived by three brothers and one sister ; Otto
of Youngsville; Eugene of Anahuac, Texas; Frank of
Hutchinson, Kan., and Clara M. Christian of Lindsborg,
Kansas. He was united in marriage to Sarah Jane Dem-
mon in 1867, she was born June 1, 1845, in Russell. She is
a direct descendant of James Watt of "Tea Kettle fame."
Four children were born to them — Alice B. Siggins of Mead-
ville ; Grace G. Rhodes of Corry ; Blanch B. Jobes and Ray
V. Agrelius of Youngsville. Mrs. Agrelius departed this
life on June 21, 1910. John Agrelius engaged in the pump
business in 1866 and in 1873 built a mill for the manu-
facture of heading and shingles, this mill was burned in
1876 and rebuilt in the same year in its present location.
In 1878 he engaged in the mercantile trade, later purchas-
ing a drug store and combining these in the present store
building which was erected in 1886. He was appointed
Postmaster in 1884. He continued in active business up
to the time when his failing health compelled him to retire.
Mr. Agrelius was President of the Board of Trustees of the
Methodist Church for over thirty years. He died February
6, 1916. His daughter, Alice Bertha Agrelius, married Oc-
tober 23, 1889, Frank Morris Siggins. — (From Youngsville
Enterprise, Feb. 6, 1916).
(317). EDWIN PALMER LEONARD, son of William
Other Families 187
Thomas and Ida (Hall) Leonard, b. December 4, 1872, in
Norwood, N. Y., received his early education in the schools
of that town, he later attended the Conservatory of Music
at Oberlin, Ohio, where he sang with the Glee Club for
many years, he afterwards joined the Shubert Quartet
of Chicago and visited the principal cities of the west and
south, later going to Boston to continue the study of music.
Possessing a voice of unusual quality and power he has sung
in a quartet in one of the leading churches of Boston seven-
teen years ; he is now connected with Boston Optical Com-
pany and is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Order
of Eastern Star and of the Congregational Church. He
married January 1st, 1900, by Rev. Arthur Taylor, to:
(317). Lillian Wealthy Siggins", b. May 10, 1875, in
Youngsville, Pa. ; she attended the schools of Youngsville
and the Longview Seminary and later the Conservatory of
Music at Oberlin, Ohio. She is a member of the Con-
gregational Church, the Order of the Eastern Star, the
Parliamentary Law Club and the Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution, and is quoted as being an authority on
raising boys, of whom she has four : Children :
326. i. CLAIR Thomas Leonard 7 , b. January 31, 1901,
in Newton, Mass.
227. ii. EDWIN Palmer Leonard 7 , b. June 26, 1903, in
Newton, Mass.
328. iii. HENRY Siggins Leonard 7 , b. December 19,
1905, in Newton, Mass.
329. iv. RICHARD Lewis Leonard 7 , b. December 16,
1907, in Newton, Mass.
(318). CLARENCE ACKIN SIGGINS 6 , of Tulsa, Ok-
lahoma; born in Limestone, N. Y., April 28, 1878; has
been engaged in the oil business almost continuously since
leaving school at the age of eighteen, first in Pennsylvania
and West Virvinia, going in 1905 to Bartlesville, Okla.,
thense to Tulsa, where he was married March 2, 1910, to
188 SlGGINS AND
Leona Coates, of Toledo, Ohio ; they removed in the same
year to Beaumont, Texas, where Mr. Siggins was con-
nected with the Gulf Oil Corporation in the capacity of
Superintendent for the State of Texas and south half of
Louisiana, in 1914 he returned to Tulsa, where he is now
Division Superintendent of the Gypsy Oil Company.
Children :
330. i. LEANDER Clair Siggins 7 , b. Feb. 3, 1911.
331. ii. CATHERINE Lillian Siggins 7 .
BUSHNELL RECORDS.
"The following is a copy of the earliest Genealogical
Records of Saybrook that are known:"
Children of WILLIAM BUSHNELL:
i Joshua Bushnell, b. May 6, 1644.
ii. Samuel Bushnell; b. Sept. 15, 1645.
iii. Rebeka Bushnell ; b. Oct. 5, 1646.
iv. Will Bushnell ; b. Feb. 15, 1648.
v. Francis Bushnell; b. Jan. 6, 1649.
vi. Stephen, & Thomas Bushnell; b. Jan. 4, 1653.
vi.i Judeth Bushnell; b. January, 1655.
viii. Abigail Bushnell; b. Feb., 1659.
(The following name was written in by a later hand.)
William Bushnell, the son of JOHN BUSHNELL, senior,
of Boston, deceased the 31st day of August, 1684.
Children of John Bushnell :
i. John Bushnell ; b. March 5, 1665.
Other Families 189
ii. Sarah Bushnell ; b. Sept., 1668.
iii. Hannah Bushnell; b. Nov. 10, 1670.
iv. Mary Bushnell; b. Feb. 20, 1672.
v. Elizabeth Bushnell; b. Dec. 23, 1674.
Samuel Bushnell was married to Patience Rudd, Oct. 7,
1675. Their children were:
i. Abigail Bushnell; b. July 27, 1677.
ii. Judeth Bushnell; b. Sept. 14, 1679.
iii. Samuel Bushnell; b. Aug. 21, 1682.
iv. Jonathan Bushnell; b. April 10, 1685.
vi. Daniel Bushnell; b. Feb. 20, 1687.
vi. Nathaniel Bushnell; b. Feb. 18, 1690.
Samuel Bushnell married 2d Priscilla Pratt, April 19,
1700. Children :
vii. Hepzibah, and Ebenezer Bushnell; b. Aug. 19, 1701.
viii. Priscilla Bushnell; b. Dec. 19, 1703.
ix. Josiah Bushnell; b. June 9, 1706.
The children of William Bushnell, son of Lieut. Wm.
Bushnell :
Sarah Bushnell; b. March 1, 1674.
i. Ephraim Bushnell; b. Feb. 14, 1675.
ii. William Bushnell ; b. April 0, 1680.
v. Esther Bushnell; b. Nov. 2, 1683.
Rebeka, wife of the above William Bushnell, died May
14, 1703 ; the above said William Bushnell was married to
Sarah Bull, widow, June 6, 1705.
190 SlGGINS AND
DEACON FRANCIS BUSHNELL, deceased this life De-
cember 4th, 1681. Lieut. William Bushnell died 12th of
November, 1683. Richard Bushnell died in 1681.
(From the New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. Vol. IV. p. 19.)
Saraw Bushnell, married Joseph Hingham, June 20, 1665.
Children :
i. Joseph Hingham; b. Aug. 30, 1656.
ii. Saraw Hingham; b. June 11, 1655.
Mary Bushnell, married Samuel Jones, Jan. 1, 1663.
Children :
i. Samuel Jones, b. Nov. 1667.
ii. Mary Jones, b. Dec. 3, 1670.
iii. Martha Jones, b. Jan. 18, 1672.
Martha Bushnell married Jonathan Smith, Jan. 1, 1663.
(From The New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. Vol. IV.)
Other Families 191
BUSHNELL FAMILY.
332. ''Ye Elder Francis Bushnell, the progenitor of the
Bushnell family in America; married Rebekah
Holmes ; they were of Horsted in Surrey, Eng.
They sailed from London in 1639, in the company of
Rev. Henry Whitfield. During the voyage the passengers
formulated the plantation covenant and Francis Bushnell
was among the twenty-five signers. The company reached
New Haven in July, purchased lands from the Indians, and
established a plantation which remained independent until
1643, when it was admitted to the New Haven Colony and
named Guildforde. Frances Bushnell died 1646 ; his will was
the first probated at Guildford, Conn. One of the sons of
Francis Bushnell was Richard, who removed from Guild-
ford to Saybrook probably immediately after the burning
of Saybrook Fort in 1647, when his services as a carpenter
were in great demand. He married Oct. 11, 1648, Mary
Marvin, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin of
Hartford who came from England in 1635. He died at
Saybrook in 1658, leaving a widow and four small children.
She subsequently married Deacon Thomas Adgate and re-
moved with the company ; then going from Saybrook found-
ed Norwich in 1660, where she died Mar. 29, 1713. The
four children of her first marriage were also removed to
Norwich, but whether they continued to live with their
mother and step-father or were cared for by her sister is
not clear. The two sons, Joseph and Richard, though minors
at the time of the settlement, are reckoned among the orig-
inal or first class planters. Of the two sons, Richard was
for more than half a century a prominent figure in Con-
necticut. He was town clerk for thirty years and member
of the General Assembly for thirty-eight sessions. He was
also constable, schoolmaster, captain of the train band,
192 SlGGINS AND
town agent, Justice of the Peace and speaker of the House
for many years. The other son, Joseph, born May, 1651,
was less prominent in public life. He married Nov. 28,
1673, Mary Leffingwell, daughter of Thomas Leffingwell,
one of the proprietors and first settlers of Norwich, and
prominent in the region for many years. Joseph died Dec.
23, 1746, and his wife Mar. 31, 1745. Nathan Bushnell, the
seventh child and fourth son of Joseph, was born at Nor-
wich, Feb. 22, 1686, and died Oct. 7, 1770. He married (1)
Dec. 2, 1713, Anne Gary, and (2) Sept. 12, 1715, Mehitable
Allen. Of the eight children by the second marriage, Jos-
eph Bushnell was the oldest, born July 20, 1716. He mar-
ried (1) his second cousin, Abigail Bushnell, and (2) Aug.
25, 1745, Elizabeth French. He died June 5, 1796, at Nor-
wich. His fourth son was Jason Bushnell, who was born
at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 12, 1763, and died near Cincin-
natti, Ohio, in Sept., 1847. He was a soldier in the Revo-
lutionary War, having enlisted from the town of Norwich
in Captain Miel's company of General Waterbury's brigade
raised for the defense of the sea coast. The brigade subse-
quently joined Washington and served until the end of the
war. He married (1) in 1785, Hannah Kirkland, and (2)
Sarah Smith. In 1811, with his wife Sarah and four of his
ten children he removed to Rome, N. Y., where he lived as a
farmer for many years. In 1845, he and his wife removed
to Cincinnatti, Ohio, where he lived with one of his sons
until his death in 1847, his wife having died in 1846. Daniel
Bushnell, the fifth son of Jason, born in Lisbon, Conn., Feb.
17, 1800, died Oct. 1884, in Ohio; married March 9, 1825.
Asa Smith Bushnell, their son, was in 1895 elected Governor
of Ohio. Governor Bushnell, like every member of the
Bushnell family from early Connecticut, was brought up a
Congregationalist, but after his marriage he was an ad-
herent of the Episcopal Church of which his wife was a
member. He was a member of the Society of the Colonial
Wars, and one of the founders of the Ohio Society of the
Sons of the Revolution. He was also an enthusiastic mem-
ber of the Loyal Legion; also of the Ohio Archaeological
and Historical Society. He became a member of the "Old
Other Families
193
Northwest" Genealogical Society on Oct. 4, 1879. He was
made a thirty-third degree Mason September 17, 1857.
Mr. Bushnell married Ellen Ludlow, daughter of
Dr. John Ludlow of Springfield, Ohio. Their
children were :
FANNIE Ludlow Bushnell, b. Aug. 22, 1858;
m. Dec. 9, 1880, John F. McGrew, of Spring-
field, Ohio. Children:
i. ELLEN Bushnell McGrew.
ii. FANNY Judkins McGrew.
HARRIET Elmina Bushnell, b. Aug. 27, 1860 ;
m. Nov. 22, 1887, Henry C. Dimond, of Spring-
field. Children :
ASA Bushnell Dimond.
DOUGLAS Marquand Dimond.
HENRIETTA Dimond.
iii. ALICE Bushnell, b. Nov. 20, 1862, d. Sept. 2,
1864.
342. iv. JOHN Ludlow Bushnell, b. Feb. 15, 1872; m.
Oct. 14, 1896, Jessie M. Harwood. Children:
343. i. ASA Smith Bushnell, b. Feb. 2, 1900.
344. ii. EDWARD Harwood Bushnell, b. Nov. 19,
1903.
JOHN Bushnell, Jr., b. Nov. 19, 1903.
333.
334.
335.
336.
337.
338.
339.
340.
341.
345.
(From the "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly.
Vol. VII, July, 1904.)
Among the Revolutionary soldiers of the Bushnell
family may be found Ens. Alexander, Ephraim, James
Jason, John Handley, Josiah, Nathan and Sergt. Phineas
Bushnell. (M. H. M.)
194 SlGGINS AND
346. DANIEL Bushnell 3 , grandson of "Ye Elder Francis
bushnell 1 , b. 1740, in Saybrook, Connecticut; d.
December 12, 1818, at Litchfield, New York; he
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; he
married :
Hannah His son:
347. AMASA Bushnell 4 , was born in Saybrook; removed
to Granby, Conn., thence to Litchfield, N. Y.,
and later to Napoli, N. Y. b. June 13, 1765, in
Saybrook ; d. August 19, 1841, in Napoli, N. Y. ;
m. December 27, 1792, in Granby, Conn.
Prudence Holcomb, b. February 17, 1775; d. May
1, 1858. Children, all except Betsey, the eldest,
were born in Litchfield, New York.
348. i. BETSEY Bushnell', d. 1796, August 17, at
Litchfield.
349. ii. NANCY Bushnell"', d. 1796, August 21, at
Litchfield.
350.* iii. JAMES Bushnell"', d. 1863, December 18, in
Michigan.
351.* iv. JOSIAH Bushnell', d. 1841, February 22, in
Napolia, N. Y.
352.* v. AMASA Bushnell, Jr.', d. 1855, Sept. 20, in
Illinois.
353.* vi. PRUDENCE Bushnell', d. 1881, October 10, in
Busti, N. Y.
354.* vii. ASHBEL Bushnell', d. 1880, May 28, in Napoli,
N. Y.
355.* viii. CHAUNCEY S. Bushnell 3 , d. 1884, November
5, in Napoli, N. Y.
356. ix. NANCY Bushnell', d. 1883, February 15, in
Conewango, N. Y.
Other Families 195
351/" x. ELIAS Bushnell 5 , d. 1909, June 6, in Napoli,
N. Y.
(350) James Bushnell-"', married and removed to Mich-
igan, the name of his wife is unknown ; his children were :
Mayette, who was drowned while young; Alexander,
Gordon, Charles, Edna, Mayette and Delos.
(351). Josiah Bushnell', married:
Julia Ann Heminway ; they lived in Napoli, N. Y.
Children :
358. i. EUNICE Bushnell", m. Harrison Brink, and
had: Josiah, Agnes, Francis, Porter, Edna,
Alice and Andrew.
359. ii. ELVIRA Bushnell 6 , m. 1st, Ephriam Altenburg,
they had one child that died young ; she married
2nd, Joseph York; no children.
360. iii. ALBURN Bushnell*', m. Helen Merchant, and
had: Luella, d. young; Elzer, Melzer (twins),
Carrie, Celia, Linnie and Stella.
361. iv. ELETRA Bushnell", m. William Frarey, and
had: Harriet, Emma and Addie.
362. v. NANCY Bushnell", m. Nicholas Bigler, and had :
Flora and Ella.
363. vi. LYMAN Bushnell 6 , m. 1st Mary Peaslee, and
had : William, Kate, Edith and Daniel ; m. 2nd,
Helen Finch.
364. vii. JULIA Bushnell", m. Alfred Church, and had:
Martha, Olive, Ray and Rose.
352). AMASA BUSHNELL, JR. 5 , m. Mila Frarey, they
removed to Illinois and had :
196 SlGGINS AND
352a. i. ALICE Bushnell' 5 , m. Lyman Booth,. they had
Lucy Booth 7 and Judson Booth 7 .
352b. ii. JUDSON Bushnell' 5 , m. twice, no children.
352c. iii. ELMER Bushnell 15 .
352d. iv. STANLEY Bushnell 8 .
(353). PRUDENCE BUSHNELL", b. May 19, 1803; d.
October 10, 1881, in Busti, N. Y. ; m. :
Normandus Nelson, b. October 20, 1798; d. August 31,
1861 ; son of Hosea Nelson, d. 1834; and his wife, Theodosia
Moore, b. April 23, 1769, at Westfield, Mass ; d. October 14,
1860; she was a dau. of William Moore, b. 1737, in Sims-
bury, Conn., who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War
and served three enlistments, he was at the battle of Bunker
Hill, under Capt. Thomas Knowlton; his final discharge
is dated May 5, 1780; from the 3d. Reg. Conn. Line. His
wife was Sarah , who was b. at Westfield, Mass.
Children :
365. i. NORMANDUS Nelson 5 , m. Aken, and
had: Nelia and Jennie.
366.* ii. EDITH DIENNIE NELSON' 5 , b. April 26,
1826; m. Sept. 4, 1850.
William Findley Siggins (No. 267).
367. iii. SOPHIA Nelson*, m. Babcock.
368. iv. WELTHEA Nelson", m. Babcock.
369. vi THANKFUL Nelson' 5 , d. agd. 15.
370. vi. THOMAS Nelson 6 , m. Morton, has
two children.
(355). CHAUNCEY BUSHNELL, m. Emaline Wood-
worth, and had:
371. i. LORIN Bushnell 6 , m. Arnold, and
had: Lettie Arnold.
Other Families 197
372. ii. CLARISY Bushneir, m. twice, 1st, Gates; 2nd,
Brown ; no children.
373. iii. MARTIN Bushnell 5 , was killed in the Civil War.
374. iv. FRANK BushnelP, m. Gates, and had :
Mertie Bushnell 6 , who m. Waite and Ida Bush-
nell 6 .
375. v. AMELIA Bushnell', m. Blake, no
children.
(357). Elias Bushnell', m. Sarah Newall, and had: Har-
riet, d. young. Ella fi , who m. George Champlin, and had
a dau., Delia Champlin.
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198 SlGGINS AND
MORGAN FAMILY.
JAMES MORGAN — Immigrant Ancestor, was born in
Wales, probably at Llandaff, Glamorgan county, but the fam-
ily appears to have removed to Bristol, England, before
1636. The name of his father is unknown, but there is some
traditionary evidence that it was William. In March,
1636, he and two brothers, John and Miles, sailed from
Bristol and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, in April.
John Morgan, who appears to have been a high churchman,
soon left Boston for the more congenial society of Virginia.
Miles Morgan settled in Springfield. James Morgan set-
tled at Roxbury before 1640 and lived there for ten years
or more. He was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643. Early
in 1650 he was granted land at Pequot, later called New
London, Connecticut, and soon occupied by him as a home-
stead on the path to New Street (now Ashcraft Street)
near the present burial grounds in the western suburbs of
the city. He continued to occupy this homestead on the
path to New Street or Cape Ann Lane, as it was called, in
honor of the Cape Ann Company, who chiefly settled there,
until March, 1657. He was one of the townsmen or select-
men of New London and one of the first deputies of the
general court at Hartford (May, 1657), and was nine times
afterward elected a deputy. The spot where he built his
house in Groton in 1657 and afterward resided and where
he died, is a few rods southeast the Groton ferry, on the
road to Pocuonoco bridge, and this homestead has descend-
ed down to the present generation by inheritance. He died
in 1685, aged seventy-eight years, and his estate was soon
afterward divided among his four surviving children. He
married Aug. 6, 1640, Margery Hill of Roxbury. Children
born in Roxbury, except the youngest child :
Other Families 199
i. HANNAH Morgan', b. May 18, 1642; m. Nov. 20,
1660.
Henehiam Royce.
ii. JAMES Morgan', b. March 3, 1644 ; m. Nov., 1666,
Mary Vine.
iii. JOHN Morgan 2 , b. March 30, 1645 ; ill d. Aug. 23,
1711; m. 1st, Nov. 16, 1665, Rachel Dymond,
dau. of John ; m. 2d, Elizabeth (Jones) Williams,
widow, dau. of Lieutenant Governor William
Jones of New Haven, and granddaughter of
Governor Theophilus Eaton.
iv. JOSEPH Morgan 2 , b. Nov. 29, 1646.
v. ABRAHAM Morgan', b. Sept. 3, 1648; d. Aug.,
1649.
vi. A DAUGHTER 2 , b. Nov. 17, 1650; d. young.
For further information regarding this line see (Genea-
logical and Family History of the State of Connecticut),
Vol. II, p. 1198.
200 SlGGINS AND
THE MORGAN FAMILY.
This family is of Welsh descent; Miles Morgan, ancestor
of the Massachusetts branch of the family, came to Boston
in April, 1635, with two brothers, one of whom went to
Connecticut, the other to Virginia, he was the ancestor of
Gen. David Morgan, of "Ranger fame" in the Revolution.
376. Miles Morgan married Prudence Gilbert, their grand-
son, Deacon David Morgan, and his son Joseph were
among the original proprietors of Brimfield, Mass.,
drawing repsectively grants 46 and 25 in the distri-
bution of lands, later some of the sons of Benjamin
Morgan, another son of Miles, settled in Brimfield,
and it is impossible to gather from the records which
of the brothers, David or Benjamin, was the father
of John, Daniel and Noah.
377. JOHN MORGAN, of Brimfield, m. 1st, November
24, 1743;
Abigail Bashfield ; m. 2nd, July 22, 1761 ;
Margaret Mighell. Children:
377a. i. ABIGAIL Morgan 4 , b. October, 1744; m. No-
vember 14, 1768:
Reuben Townsley, Jr.
JOHN Morgan, Jr. 4 , bpt. July 22, 1750.
ROSE Morgan 4 , bpt. February 22, 1753.
JUDITH Morgan 4 , bpt. March 21, 1756.
PELATHIA Morgan 4 , bpt. Sept. 2, 1764.
POLLY Morgan 4 , bpt. June 13, 1766 ; m. April
22, 1784 Isreal Bond.
377b.
ii.
377c.
iii
377d.
iv
377e.
v.
377f.
vi.
Other Families 201
378. DANIEL MORGAN ; , of Brimfield, m. May 30, 1751 :
Mary Morgan. Children:
378a. i. AMEY Morgan 1 , bpt. March 10, 1752 ; m. Jan-
uary 13, 1773.
Joseph Tucker.
378b. ii. DANIEL Morgan*, bpt. May 24, 1755; d. No-
vember 10, 1758.
378c. iii. JACOB Morgan 4 , bpt. August 20, 1758; m.
November 1, 1787.
Sallie Trask.
378d. iv. DANIEL Morgan*, bpt. August 19, 1762.
378e. v. PERLEY Morgan 4 , bpt. October 16, 1765.
378f. vi. EPHRIAM Morgan*, bpt. January 12, 1769.
379. NOAH MORGAN 1 , of Brimfield, Mass., m. April 1,
1762.
Mercy King. Children:
380.
381.
382.
LOVINA Morgan 1 , b. October 24, 1762.
i. APOLLOS Morgan*, b. December 2, 1764.
ii. MARY Morgan 4 , b. October 23, 1767.
383. DEACON DAVID MORGAN^, b. February 18, 1679
d. September 11, 1760 ; married in 1703 ;
Deborah Colton. Children :
384. i DAVID Morgan.
385.- ii. JOSEPH Morgan 1 , b. August 19, 1705.
386. iii. MARY Morgan 1 , m. May 6, 1736.
Leonard Hoar, Jr.
387. iv. ELIZABETH Morgan 1 , m. December 12, 1738.
Phineas Sherman.
202 SlGGINS AND
388. ::< v. JONATHAN Morgan.
389. vi. DEBORAH MORGAN, m. Nathaniel Collins.
390. vii. MERCY Morgan 3 .
391. * viii. ISAAC Morgan 1 .
(385)* JOSEPH MORGAN, b. August 19, 1705; d.
January 28, 1798; m. 1st December 25, 1729:
Margaret Cooley, she died July 7, 1754; he married 2nd
August 11, 1757:
Rachel Dana, she died March 27, 1810. Children :
392. i. MARGARET Morgan 4 , b. April 20, 1730; m.
February 2, 1754:
John Mighell.
396. v. BENJAMIN Morgan 4 , b. April 17, 1739.
394.. iii. MARY Morgan 4 , b. Feb. 28, 1735 ; d. young.
395. iv. MARY Morgan 4 , b. June 15, 1737; m. May 7,
1761:
Ebenezer Hitchcock.
396. v. BENJAMIN Morgan 4 , b. April 17, 1739.
397. vi. MIRIAM Morgan 4 , b. May 7, 1742.
398. vii. KEZIAH Morgan 4 , b. Jan. 26, 1747 ; m. Decem-
ber 31, 1767:
Benjamin Cady.
399. viii. AARON Morgan 4 , b. March 16, 1749.
400. ix. ELIJAH Morgan 4 , b. May 31, 1758.
401. x. ENOCH Morgan 4 , b. August 3, 1763.
(388)* JONATHAN MORGAN 1 , b. 1710 (?); d. Jan-
uary 1, 1796 ; m. Feb. 26, 1745, Ruth Miller. Children :
402 i. ABNER Morgan 4 , b. January 9, 1746.
402a. ii. JONATHAN Morgan 4 , b. April 12, 1748.
Other Families 203
402b. iii. LOIS Morgan 4 , b. April 15, 1750; m. October
10, 1776;
William Warriner.
402c. iv. RUTH Morgan 4 , b. September 2, 1755 ; m. June
28, 1780;
Ebenezer Phillips.
(391) * ISAAC MORGAN 3 , m. August 10, 1741 ;
Dianah Burbank. Children:
403. i. ISAAC Morgan 4 , b. January 19, 1742 ; d. young.
404 ii. CALEB Morgan 4 , b. March 16, 1745 ; m. Novem-
ber 4, 1768.
Tirzah Collins.
405. iii. EUNICE Morgan 4 , b. March 13, 1747; m. Jan-
uary 12, 1769;
Jesse Lee.
406. iv. ELI Morgan 4 , b. July 22, 1749.
407. v. DEBORAH Morgan 4 , b. September 30, 1754.
408. vi. THANKFUL Morgan 4 , b. February 22, 1752;
d. May 26, 1754.
409. vii. ISAAC Morgan 4 , b. March 9, 1758; d. May,
1780.
410. viii. DAVID Morgan 4 , b. November 12, 1760.
411. ix. EDWARD Morgan 4 , b. August 21, 1764.
412. BENJAMIN MORGAN', son of Benjamin and Elinor
(Chapin) Morgan; b. June 15, 1744; m. and had
issue:
413a. i. ELINOR Morgan 4 , b. June 9, 1764.
413b. ii. JERUSHA Morgan 4 , b. September 24, 1768.
414. STEPHEN MORGAN 5 , son of Benjamin and Elinor
(Chapin) Morgan; m. May 6, 1748; and had issue:
415a.
i.
415b.
ii.
415c.
iii.
415d.
iv.
415e.
v.
416.
HI
204 SlGGINS AND
LUCE Morgan 4 , b. May 21, 1749.
AARON Morgan 4 , b. March 10, 1751.
MARY Morgan 4 , bpt. February 11, 1753; d.
October 28, 1754.
MARY Morgan 4 , bpt. September 9, 1759.
HANNAH Morgan 4 , bpt. April 17, 1763.
HENRY MORGAN", 1790-1886; was a soldier in the
war of 1812. b. August 30, 1790, in Weathersfield,
Conn.; d. October 8, 1866, in Jamestown, New
York.; m. January 1, 1812, in Herkimer County,
New York.
Francis Shaw Parmerly. Children:
417. i. WILLIAM Morgan , b. June 30, 1812; d. May
5, 1855, in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania.
418.* ii. ELIZA Morgan 6 , b. July 20, 1815; d. August
31, 1904; m. July 4, 1838.
(264) . JOHN Siggins, of Youngsville, Pa., (See No. 264) .
419. iii. SARAH Morgan 6 , b. June 21, 1817; d. May 26.
1841 ; m. February 8, 1838 ;
Henry Puncabee Kinnear (See Kinnears and their
Kin, by E. S. White).
420. iv. ABIGAIL Morgan 6 , b. April 21, 1819; d. April
24, 1890; m. March 28, 1848;
Henry Puncabee Kinnear.
421. v. BETSY Morgan 6 , b. July 4, 1821; d. August 20,
1846; m. September 1, 1844;
Elijah Mead. (See Mead family).
422. vi. CORDELIA Morgan", b. August 12, 1823; d.
1831, in Busti, N. Y.
423. vii. RUTH Morgan 6 , July 24, 1826 ; was living ("and
quite well and hearty this 4th day of April,
1912," as she says) at her home in Sugar Grove,
Pennsylvania.
Other Families 205
424. viii. FRANCIS Mary Morgan 8 , b. July 11, 1830; d.
September 8, 1845, in Carroll, New York.
(418) ELIZA MORGAN, the eldest daughter of Henry
Morgan, was born July 21, 1815, at Jamestown, on her fath-
er's farm afterwards sold to Dr. Laban Hazeltine, and is
known as Brooklyn Square. July 4, 1838, she married John
Siggins (No. 264) of Youngsville. Here she lived until her
death Aug. 31, 1904. She is survived by one son (No. 298)
Dr. J. J. Siggins of Philadelphia, and one sister, Miss Ruth
Morgan of Sugar Grove. Funeral was conducted by Rev. J.
P. Burns, from the M. E. Church.
206 SlGGINS AND
CONNELY FAMILY.
THOMAS Siggins, of Walsingrange, county Wexford;
his son
MATTHEW Siggins, m. Margaret Codd;
their son
RICHARD Siggins, m. Margaret Sinot;
their son
EDWARD Siggins, of Balla, m
their son
WILLIAM Siggins, m. Mary Taylor ;
their son
JOHN Siggins, m. Sarah Hood ;
their daughter
SARAH Siggins, m. Isaac Connely.
(6) SARAH Siggins', John', William 1 ; b. 1790, in Sligo
County, Ireland; came to America in 1793; d. July 9, 1859,
in Warren County, Pennsylvania; m. Oct. 1, 1807, in Venan-
go County, Pennsylvania.
Isaac Connely-, William 1 , b. 1780, near Philadelphia; d.
1864, in Cobham, Pennsylvania. Judge Isaac Connely- set-
tled on a farm which lies on the eastern line of Youngsville.
He was selected in 1819 first associate judge of Warren
County, and held the office twenty-one consecutive years.
His son William Whitfield Connely who lived near Tidioute,
served as associate judge five years, 1876-1881. Isaac Con-
nely lived a number of years in Deerfield township where
he owned and operated a saw mill, he later moved to Broken-
straw. He was an exhorter of remarkable ability: he
owned a farm at Cobham on the Allegheny River where he
lived and where he died about 1864. Their children were :
' ^ll
- Site.
\
m^'
HJ*> '
Other Families 207
425.* i. SARAH Connely 4 , m. :
Erastus Rouse.
426.* ii. SUSAN Connely 4 , b. 1810; m. 1st.,
Perry Magee ; m. 2nd.,
Peter Smith, b. 1802.
427. iii. ELIZABETH Connely 1 , d. in infancy.
428.* iv. REBECCA Connely 4 , b. July 21, 1813; d. May
23, 1904; m. 1836:
Edward Patterson, of Bordentown, N. J.
429.* v. RACHEL Connely 4 , b. 1815; d. 1879, in Ohio;
m. 1st.,
Luke Smith, m. 2nd.,
James Russel.
430.* vi. JOHN Fletcher Connely 4 , b. Jan. 18, 1816; m.
Mar. 9, 1847 :
Aurelia Trask, (a sister of Mrs. John D. Mead of
Youngsville, Pa).
431.* vii. MARY (Polly) Connely 4 , b. May 1819; m.
Oliver G. Chase.
432.* viii. WILLIAM Whitfield Connely 4 , b. Mar. 30,
1827; m. Dec. 9, 1849:
Lucy Rowley, dau. of Solomon Rowley.
(425) SARAH CONNELY 4 , m. :
Erastus Rouse. Their children were :
433. i. CORDELIA Rouse", b. 1837, in Watsburg, Pa. ;
she was a member of the Presbyterian Church
many years; d. January 22, 1912; m. 1855:
J. Madison Smith. Their children were:
434. i. WILLIAM Smith 6 .
435. ii. ELLA Smith 6 , m. :
Charles G. Geary. Their children were :
436. i. MARGARET Geary 7 .
208
437.
438.
439.
440.
441.
442.
443.
SlGGINS AND
ii. CHARLES Geary 7 , of Bridgefield, Pa.
ii. NANCY Rouse"', m. :
William Delmar, of Custer City, Pa. Their chil-
dren were :
i.
HARRY Delmar".
iii. SUSAN Rouse"', m.:
Joseph Magee, (583). Their children were:
i. WILLIAM Magee".
ii. OLIVER Magee".
iii. MORTIMER Magee".
444. iv. CONNELY Rouse", m. 2nd.,
Harriet Godfrey. Their children were
445. i.
EVA Rouse' 5 , m.
Their children were:
446.
l. DELMAR Hitchcock 7 .
447.
ii. STEPHEN Hitchcock 7 .
448.
ii. WARD Hitchcock 7 .
449.
v. GRACE Hitchcock 7 .
450.
v. FORD Hitchcock 7 .
Hitchcock.
451.
452.
453.
ii. FRANK Rouse", m.
dren were:
i. HAZEL Rouse 7 .
ii. VINA Rouse 7 .
Their chil-
454. iii. WILLIS Rouse", m.
children were :
455. i. GUY Rouse 7 .
456. ii. HAROLD Rouse 7 .
Their
Other Families 209
457. iv. PERRY Rouse", m. : Their chil-
dren were:
458. i. ZELLA Rouse 7 .
459. ii. VENNES Rouse 7 .
460. v. GUY Rouse' 1 .
461. vi. JEFFERSON Rouse 1 , lived in North Girard,
Pa.; d. January 11, 1883, in Washington, D.
C. m.:
Godfrey, a cousin of the wife of
Connely Rouse (444). Their children were:
462. i. JENNIE Rouse 6 .
463. ii. MARY Rouse 6 , m. :
Wright. Their children were :
464. i. JAMES Wright 7 .
465. ii. RUSSEL Wright 7 .
466. iii. FRANK Wright 7 .
467. vii. PERRY Rouse-.
(426) SUSAN CONNELY% b. 1810; m. 1st (584) Perry
Magee; m. 2nd., (646), Peter Smith. She died
Saturday November 15, 1902, at 10 A. M. "Her
death was a triumph of the living faith". Chil-
dren by first marriage :
468.* i. MELISSA Magee-"-, m. William Knight.
469.* ii. ISAAC Magee-, m. twice.
470. iii. SAMUEL Magee'-, was a soldier in the Civil
War; b. April 22, 1843.
471. iv. WILBUR Magee-, was a soldier in the Civil
War ; b. November 16, 1844.
472. v. JEFFERSON Magee, died in the Civil War; b.
April 5, 1846.
210 SlGGINS AND
473. vi. FLETCHER Magee', b. October 8, 1847.
(468) MELISSA MAGEE \ b. December 9, 1839 ; m. Oc-
tober 15, 1862:
William Knight. They had one daughter:
474.* i. ETTA Knight' 1 , b. September 20, 1863.
(469) ISAAC MAGEE\ b. June 27, 1841 ; was a soldier
in the Civil War ; m. twice but names of his wives unknown
to us. His children were:
475. i. STANLEY Magee 6 .
476. ii. ORVILLE Magee ,; .
477. iii. FLETCHER Magee' 1 .
478. iv. SAMUEL Magee".
(474) Etta Knight , m. 1st, G. Clark Brown; m. 2nd, D.
P. Smith. By first marriage she had:
479. i. EMERSON Connely Brown 7 , b. February 16,
1897.
(428) Rebecca Connely, 1813-1904, daughter of Judge
Isaac and Sarah (Siggins) Connely, married Edward Pat-
terson, and removed to and lived at Turnersville, Lincoln
County, Kentucky.
On June 20, 1896, she wrote to her cousin Benjamin
Baird Siggins.
"The Siggins Reunions have been a source of great inter-
est to me — I regret I cannot attend any of these meetings —
I have sent from time to time to different relatives items of
family history.
I well remember grandmother Siggins, Uncle George and
Uncle William and our dear good father, also Uncle John
who left home when I was a small child, he must have been
twenty-five or thirty years old at that time. I have often
seen the young lady he was engaged to — she was a sister
of Aunt Fanny Baird's son-in-law Fletcher Hamlin.
Other Families 211
My husband died seventeen years ago in Ohio, my son
(Edward Patterson, Jr.), lives in Ohio, two daughters in
New Jersey, one in Ohio and one in Kentucky where I am
now.
The 21st of July I will be eighty-three years old, I have
been a member of the Methodist Church more than sixty
years, I also belong to the Y. W. C. A."
(428) REBECCA CONNELY 1 , b. July 21, 1813, in Pit-
hole, Pa.; d. May 23, 1904, in Bloomfield, N. J.; m. 1836:
Edward Patterson, of Bordentown, N. J. ; d. 1879, in Ohio.
Their children were :
480. i. SARAH Patterson"-, b. August 12, 1837 ; m. 1st.,
George Tracer; m. 2nd.,
Augustus Seman; m. 3d.,
Webster. Children:
FILMORE Tracer", went to Arkansas.
GEORGE Tracer", d. aged about 22.
MARTHA Patterson", b. December 20, 1838; m.
May 1870:
Henry Westwood.
484.* iii. CATHERINE REBECCA PATTERSON"', b.
March 27, 1841; m. Conrad Jacobs, of Zanes-
ville, Ohio;b. Oct. 23, 1831, in Germany; d.
Feb. 10, 1886, in Newark, Ohio. Their children
were :
485. i. HAROLD Jacobs", b. Feb. 3, 1863 ; m.
Anna Johnson, in New York.
486. ii NELLIE Jacobs 6 , b. July 15, 1866; m.:
Arthur L. Reich. They had one daughter:
487. i. FRANCES Reich 7 , b. July 13, 1894.
488. iii. WARREN Jacobs", b. September 7, 1868.
481.
482.
i.
ii.
483.*
ii.
212 SlGGINS AND
489. iv. ARTHUR Jacobs 15 , b. May 21, 1872; m. Nov.
1894:
Caroline Clyne. Their children were:
490. i. IRWIN Jacobs 7 , b. August 1899.
491. ii. CONRAD Jacobs 7 , b. December 26, 1902.
492. iii. CATHERINE Amelia Jacobs 7 , b. May
21, 1903.
493 v. FRANCES Louise Jacobs 8 , b. Sept. 27, 1874,
m. August 10, 1901 :
John Jacob Kessler, Ph. D. Chemical Engineer,
of St. Louis, Mo. Their children were :
494. i. FRANCES Louise Kessler 7 , b. Sept. 8,
1902.
495. ii. JOHN Jacob Kessler Jr., 7 , b. Apr. 24,
1903.
496. iii. WILLIAM Albert Kessler 7 , b. Sept. 13,
1905.
497. iv. EDWARD Patterson Kessler 7 , b. August
9, 1908.
498. v. ROBERT Warren Kessler 7 , b. Nov. 15,
1911.
499. vi. WALTER Louis Jacobs 6 , b. December 20,
1876.
500. iv. RACHEL ISABEL PATTERSON \ b. April 30,
1843, in Warren, Pennsylvania, m. :
Joseph Combs. Their children were:
501. i. ALICE Combs 6 .
502. ii. KATE Combs 6 , m.:
Charles W. Mehl, of Hamilton, Ohio. Their chil-
dren were :
503. i. BESSIE Mehl 7 .
504. ii. NELLIE Mehl 7 .
Other Families 213
505. iii. SHIRLEY, Mehl 7 .
506. iii. ELLA Combs 1 ', m.:
Thomas Warr, of Hamilton, Ohio. And had one
daughter.
507. i. MARY Warr 7 .
508. iv. GEORGE Combs , m.: Parker.
509. v. ISABEL Combs' 1 , d. 1882; aged 16.
510. vi. BESSIE Combs' 1 .
511. v. HELEN Patterson', b. Aug. 4, 1850; D. Dec.
1858 ; Butler, Co. O.
512. vi. IDA Patterson"', b. June 24, 1855; m. November
1876:
Frank E. Flenner, of Butler County, Ohio. Their
children were:
513. i. BESSIE Flenner 6 .
514. ii. LAURA Flenner".
515. iii. KATHERINE Flenner*.
516. vii. EDWARD Patterson'.
(429) RACHEL CONNELY\ m. 1st., Luke Smith, m.
2nd., James Russel. Children:
517. i. THOMAS Harvey Russell', m. Nan Magee,
Youngsville, Pa.
518. ii. THEODORE Russell', m. Children:
519. i. FRANK Russell 6 .
520. ii. LYMAN Russell".
521. iii. WILLIAM Russell".
522. iv. MARY Russell".
523. iii. SARAH Russell', m.:
Chambers Jury, of Tidioute, Pa. Children:
—15
214
SlGGINS AND
524.
l. RACHEL Jury 6 .
525.
i. CLARENCE Jury".
526.
lii. IVAN Jury 6 .
527.
v. CLYDE Jury 6 .
528.
v. DELLA Jury 6 .
529.
vi. MABEL Jury 6 .
530. iv.
MARY Russell', m.:
Children :
Halstead
531. :
JESSE Halstead 6 .
532.
i. RALPH Halstead 6 .
533.
ii. MARY Halstead 6 .
534.
v. MAUD Halstead 6 .
535. v.
TAMES Riioopll-" m •
T? n cicirtll
Children :
536.
u LILLIE Russell 6 .
537.
i. JOSIAH Russell 6 .
538. 3
ii. ETHEL Russell 6 .
539. vi.
ANNIE Russell"-, m.:
Children:
Files.
540. 3
NETTIE Files 6 .
541. 3
i. JOHN Files 6 .
542. 3
ii. CLARENCE Files 6 .
543. vii.
ELMER Russell".
(430) JOHN FLETCHER CONNELY', of Deeriield
township, Warren County Pennsylvania ; b. January 18,
1816; d. February 22, 1854; m. March 9, 1847:
Aurelia Reed Trask, (No.-780), b. January 22,
1822; d. May 3, 1862. Children:
Other Families 215
544. i. HELEN E. Connely 5 , b. August 30, 1848; m.
July 4, 1883:
R. C. Bliss. No children.
545. ii. NEWTON J. Connely % b. April 1, 1850; d. June
1, 1885.
546. iii. SIDNEY Samuel Connely", a merchant in Pitts-
field, Pa.; b. March 6, 1852; m. June 1875:
Emily E. Mead, dau. of John and Evelyn K. (Jack-
son) Mead. Children:
547. i. RUFUS Newton Connely , b. 1880 ; married :
Ermie Smith. They have one child :
548. ii. LEON Sidney Connely , b. 1882.
(431). MARY "POLLY" CONNELY 4 , b. May 24, 1819,
at Youngsville, Pa.; d. Feb. 4, 1905, at Jamestown, N. Y.;
m. 1837, at Youngsville, Pa.
OLIVER G. CHASE, b. 1811, at Meadeville, Pa. ; d. 1887,
at Jamestown, N. Y. Children:
549. i. ANN Eliza Chase 5 , b. 1838; d. 1847.
550. ii. AMELIA Chase-" 1 , b. 1840 ; d. 1847.
551.* iii. OLIVER F. Chase 5 , b. 1844; m. twice.
552. iv. WALTER Chase', b. 1847; d. 1849.
(551). Oliver F. Chase', of Jamestown, N. Y., b. 1844;
m. 1st., in 1880:
Eva Todd ; m. 2nd., 1888 :
Harriet Myers. By his first marriage he had:
553. i. C. EMERSON Chase , b. 1882; m.
Jessie Benton ; they live in New York City.
(432). WILLIAM WHITFIELD CONNELY 4 , Associate
Judge of Warren County, Pennsylvania, b. in Youngsville,
Pa., March 30, 1827; died January 28, 1891, in Youngs-
554.*
i.
555.*
ii.
556.*
iii.
557.*
iv.
216 SlGGINS AND
ville; married by Philip Mead, J. P., December 9, 1849;
(565), Lucy Rowley, b. May 19, 1829; d. November 21,
1890. Children :
IDA M. Connely"', m. William Blossom.
ELLA ("Lola") Elnora Connely", m. Charles
Rose.
EDITH A. Connely", m. Edward Chadwick.
FLORA Adaline Connely"', m. George M. Konkle.
(554). IDA M. Connley 5 , m. William Blossom. Their
children were :
558. i. FREDERICK Blossom 8 , b. February 7, 1882.
559. ii. WILLIAM Blossom", b. October 4, 1889.
(555). ELLA Elnora ("Lola") Connely", b. September
6, 1860; m. September 4, 1886:
Charles Rose, b. September 13, 1855. They have one
daughter:
560. i. GERTRUDE M. Rose", b. May 11, 1888.
(556). Edith A. Connely"', b. November 14, 1862; m.
July 2, 1885 :
Edward Chadwick. Their children were:
561. i. WILLIAM Chadwick 6 , b. April 28, 1888.
562. ii. ALMA Chadwick", b. September 18, 1890.
(557). Flora Adaline Connely" 1 b. October 27, 1865, in
Cobham, Pa.; m. by Rev. Pete, in Jamestown, N. Y., July
4, 1887:
George M. Konkle, b. November 13, 1864, in East Pitts-
burgh, Pa., son of Jacob and Katherine (Foster) Konkle.
Their children were :
563. i. RAYMOND Gerald Konkle", b. June 8, 1889, in
Watson Township, Warren County, Pa.
Other Families 217
563a. ii. HAROLD Haslet Konkle ,; , b. April 12, 1898, in
Youngsville.
563b. iii. GEORGE William Konkle' ; , b. September 1902,^
in Mabie, West Virginia.
564. SOLOMON ROWLEY 1 , b. in Connecticut. "In the
days of his young manhood he gave his heart to
Christ, under the preaching of Rev. Cyrus Butler,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Wilson,
Connecticut, during the last twenty-three years of
his life he was an invalid, he died in April 1866;
he selected for his funeral discourse the text:
For me to live is Christ, to die is gain." The name
of his wife is unknown to us. His children were:
565. i. LUCY Rowley- 1 , m. (432), William Whitfield
Connely. (432)
FANNIE Rowley 2 , m. (718), Charles Smith.
LOUISE Rowley 1 .
JOANNA Rowley^.
ELIZA Rowley^.
ELVIRA Rowley-.
LEVI Rowley-.
566.
ii.
567.
iii.
568.
iv.
569.
v.
570.
vi.
571.
vii,
218 SlGGINS AND
MAGEE FAMILY.
572. "At the June term of Court of Common Pleas,
1821, James Magee, then eighty-six years of age,
made statement under oath that early in 1776 he
enlisted in the State of Delaware in a company
commanded by Captain Lattimore, called the "Wil-
mington Greens" for a term of fifteen months.
Subsequently he re-enlistd in the same State in a
company commanded by Captain Mitchell. His
company was attached to Colonel Grayson's regi-
ment of the Virginia Line, and served till 1780.
Mr. Magee participated in the battles of Brandy-
wine, Paoli, Germantown and Monmouth.
(Hist, of Warren Co. Pa., p. 139.)
James Magee received a grant of land from the
Government for his services in the Revolution.
This land was near Hickory, Pa. He had a son
Samuel Magee who was father of Perry Magee
who married Susan Connelly, daughter of Isaac
and Sarah (Siggins) Connelly.
JAMES MAGEE, (1733-1823), b. in Ireland in 1733, d. in
Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1823. "He was a pri-
vate in the Continental Line Pennsylvania Volunteers, after-
ward in the Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Continental Line,
Commanded by Col. Edward Hand, and later by Col. James
Chambers, he participated in the battle of Long Island
August 27, 1776, and in many others, was promoted Octo-
ber 1776, Sergeant in Capt. Jacob Bower's Company. On
April 6, 1794 he took out a patent for 200 acres of land in
Venango County, Pennsylvania; he drew a pension up to
the time of his death in 1823; and his widow received a
pension from that time until her death in 1844.
(R. W. record Pennsylvania Archives 3d series, Vol. Ill,
p-694.)
Other Families 219
572. JAMES MAGEE 1 , married in Venango County, Penn-
sylvania :
Margaret McCracken. Their children were:
573.* i. SAMUEL Magee 2 .
574.* ii. JAMES Magee 2 , m. Susan Grandin.
575.* iii. THOMAS Magee 2 .
576.* iv. WILLIAM Magee 2 .
577.* v. JOHN Magee 2 .
578.* vi. HENRY Magee 2 .
579.* vii. REBECCA Magee 2 .
580. viii. DANIEL Magee 2 , died young.
581.* ix. MEHITABEL Magee 2 .
582.* x. ALEXANDER G. Magee 2 .
(573). SAMUEL MAGEE 2 , m. Ann Allender, (No.
1190). (See Allender Family.) Their children were:
583.* i. JOSEPH A. Magee 3 , m. Susan Rouse (440).
584.* ii. PERRY Magee, m. Susan Connely (426).
585.* iii. MARGARET Magee, m. James Smith (713).
586.* iv. CAROLINE D. Magee \ m. Luke Smith (716).
587. v. SAMUEL Jr., Magee 1 , m. Jane Perkins.
588. vi. REBECCA Magee 2 , m. John Patch, moved to
Eau Claire, Wis.
589. vii. WASHINGTON Magee\ d. in the Civil War.
589a.*viii. ELIZABETH Magee 2 , m. Wm. Spencer.
(574). JAMES MAGEE 2 , m. Susan Grandin, second
cousin of (1051). Children:
590. i. JOHN Magee 2 .
591. ii. THOMAS Magee'.
220 SlGGINS AND
592. iii. GRANDIN Magee 3 , d. in Civil War.
593. iv. AMOS Magee 3 , d. in Civil War.
594. v. ALEXANDER Magee 3 , rn. and had one son,
Irvine Magee.
595. vi. HENRY P. Magee 3 , m. Margaret Huff, had one
son, Harry —
596. vii. MARGARET Magee', m. John Magee.
(575). THOMAS MAGEE 2 , m. Mary Huff. Children:
597.* i. JAMES T. Magee 3 , m. Sarah Neil; 2nd., Nancy
Magill.
BENJAMIN H. Magee 3 , m. Margaret McDonald.
JULIA Ann Magee 3 , m. Joseph Ludwig.
MARY Magee 1 , m. Fred Garlt, no issue.
HENRY Magee 3 , m. Marilla Morrison.
REBECCA Magee 3 , m. James Cochrane.
(576). WILLIAM Magee 2 , m. Keziah Thompson. Their
children were:
603.* i. MARY Ann Magee 3 , m. Henry Woods; 2nd.,
James Hays.
604.* ii. JOHN Magee 3 , was a soldier in the Civil War.
605. iii. WILLIAM Magee 3 , (C. W.) died in Anderson-
ville prison.
606. iv. JAMES Magee 3 , (C. W.) died in Andersonville
prison.
JOSEPH Magee 3 , was a soldier in the Civil War.
HANNAH Magee 3 , m. Mark Hays.
HENRY Magee 3 .
(577). JOHN MAGEE-, m. Barbara Valentine. Their
children were:
598.*
ii.
599.*
iii.
600.
iv.
601.*
v.
602.*
vi.
607.
v.
608.
vi.
609.
vii.
614.*
ii.
615.
iii.
616.*
iv.
617.*
v.
618.*
vi,
Other Families 221
610.* i. NANCY Magee 3 , m. Robert Mead, son of David,
Sr.
611. ii. MARY Ann Magee', m. David Mead, Jr.
612. iii. JACKSON Magee 1 , was drowned while young.
(578). HENRY MAGEE L ', m. 1st., Hannah Grandin; m.
2nd., Katherine Grandin. Children by first marriage :
613.* i. THOMAS Magee \ m. Emma Stocking.
OLIVER Magee', m. Sarah Mowris.
CORDELIA Magee 3 , m. John Geer, has one son,
Oliver Geer.
SARAH Ann Magee 3 , m. Anson Warner.
MARGARET Louise Magee", m. James Houser.
AMOS Magee 3 , m. Eliza Russell. 2-Mollie Tay-
lor.
619. vii. CHARLES Magee 1 , m. Sarah Hunter.
Children by 2nd marriage :
620. viii. ALEXANDER Magee 3 .
621. ix. JANE Magee-, m. Matthew Guiper.
622.* x. JULIA Rebecca Magee 3 , m. John Rushenberger.
(579). REBECCA MAGEE 2 , m. WILLIAM McDON-
ALD. Their children were:
623.* i. MARGARET McDonald, m. Benjamin H. Ma-
gee. (See-598.)
MARY McDonald, m. Robert Hood.
EMALINE McDonald 3 , m. James Parks.
THOMAS McDonald 3 , m. Louise .
JOHN McDonald 3 , m. Harriet Black.
WILLIAM McDonald Jr. 3 .
624.
ii.
625.*
iii.
626.*
iv.
627. *
v.
628.
vi.
222 SlGGINS AND
(581). METHITABEL MAGEE 2 , m. MATTHEW
LINN, of Brownsville, Pa. Their children were :
629. i. THOMAS Linn, Jr. 3 , perhaps others.
(582). ALEXANDER GRIER MAGEE 2 , m. (717),
Nancy Smith, Sept. 1, 1831. Their children were:
630. i. MARY L. Magee 3 , d. un-m. in 1910, agd. 76.
631.* ii. MARGARET R. Magee 3 , m. Jahu Hunter. (See
Hunter Family.)
632. iii. CAROLINE D. Magee 3 , b. Oct. 18, 1840; d.
young.
633. iv. SUSAN E. Magee 3 , b. Oct. 29, 1842; d. Jan. 12,
1908.
634.* v. NANCY Ann Magee 3 , b. May 16, 1846, m.
W. H. Mabie, of West Virginia.
(633) SUSAN EMALINE MAGEE, dau. of Alexander
and Nancy (Smith) Magee, b. in Limestone Twp. 1842; d.
1907. She was a charter member of the Tidioute Chapter,
D. A. R. She took a deep interest in the affairs of the or-
der, and served as its faithful and efficient Historian from
the time of its organization till the time of her decease.
She united with the Presbyterian church in 1872 and was
one of its most loyal and devoted members; she was also
a loyal member of the W. C. T. U. Her grandfather, James
Magee, was a soldier in the Revolution in 1776 and resided
on the farm which was a grant to him from the U. S. Gov-
ernment as a reward for his servics. She was possessed of
an unusually kind, pleasant and amiable disposition and
made many friends.
(583) JOSEPH A. MAGEE 3 , m. 1st Rachel Thompson;
m. 2nd Susan Rouse (440).
Children by 1st marriage:
635. i. JOSEPH Magee 4 , a soldier in the Civil War.
636. ii. SAMUEL Magee 4 , a soldier in the Civil War.
Other Families 223
637. iii. JOHN Magee 4 , a soldier in the Civil War.
638. iv. GEORGE Magee 4 , a soldier in the Civil War.
639. v. JAMES Magee 4 , a soldier in the Civil War.
640. vi. CHARLES Magee 4 , a soldier in the Civil War.
641. vii. HANNAH Magee 4 .
642. viii. MARGARET Magee 4 .
643. ix. ESTHER Magee 4 .
Children by 2nd marriage :
644. x. FREMONT Magee 4 .
645. xi. OLIVER Magee 4 .
646. xii. WILLIS Magee 4 .
(589a) ELIZABETH MAGEE 3 , b. 1823; d. 1908; m.
WILLIAM SPENCER. Children:
647. i. EMILY Spencer 4 .
648. ii. MARCIA Spencer 4 .
649. iii. NETTIE Spencer 4 .
650. iv. ELIZABETH Spencer 4 .
651. v. WILLIA Spencer 4 .
(597) JAMES T. MAGEE \ m. 1st Sarah Neil; m. 2nd
Nancy Magil. Children :
652. i. MARY Jane Magee 4 , m. Daniel Derocher.
653. ii. WM. Thomas Magee 4 .
654. iii. SARAH Ann Magee 4 , (dau. by 2nd m.)
(598) BENJAMIN H. MAGEE 3 , m. Margaret McDon-
ald. Children:
655. i. MARY Rebecca Magee 1 , m. John Tobin; they
have one daughter, Leila Tobin.
224 SlGGINS AND
656. ii. AMBROSIA Magee 4 , m. Charles Black; they
have two sons, Harry and William Black.
(599) JULIA ANN MAGEE \ m. JOSEPH LUDWIG.
Children :
657. i. LOUISA Ludwig 4 .
658. ii. THOMAS Ludwig 4 .
659. iii. MARGAEET Ludwig 4 .
660. iv. ELIZABETH Ludwig 4 .
661. v. SARAH Ludwig 4 .
662. vi. NORA Ludwig 4 .
(601) HENRY MAGEE\ m. MARILLA MORRISON.
Children :
663. i. PERCY Magee 4 , m. ; has one son, George Magee.
664. ii. ARLIN Magee 4 , m. ; no children.
(602) REBECCA MAGEE", m. JAMES COCHRANE.
Children :
665. i. ELIZA Cochrane 4 .
666. ii. HENRY Cochrane 4 .
(603) MARY ANN MAGEE, m. 1st HENRY WOODS;
m. 2nd JAMES HAYS. Children:
667. i. OLIVE Woods 4 .
668. ii. IRENE Woods 4 .
(604) JOHN MAGEE 1 , m. MARGARET MAGEE.
Children :
669. i. HENRY Magee 1 .
670. ii. SUSAN Magee 4 .
671. iii. FRANCES Magee 4 .
Other Families 225
(610) NANCY MAGEE \ m. ROBERT MEAD, of Mead-
ville, Pa. Children:
672. i. EMILY Mead 4 .
673. ii. JOHN Mead 4 .
674. iii. EUPHEMIA Mead 4 .
675. iv. IRENE Mead 4 .
613) THOMAS MAGEE, m. EMMA STOCKING.
Children :
676. i. MARSHALL Magee 4 .
677. ii. SYBIL Magee 4 .
678. iii. JAMES Magee 4 .
679. iv. MINNIE Magee 4 .
(614) OLIVER MAGEE 3 , m. SARAH MOWRIS.
Children :
680.
i.
ORRIN Magee 4 .
681.
ii.
MARIAN Magee 4 .
682.
iii.
LESTER Magee 4 .
683.
iv.
HENRY Monroe Magee
684.
v.
LUNETTA Magee 4 .
(616) SARAH ANN MAGEE 3 , m. ANSON WARNER.
Children :
685. i. RALPH Warner 4 .
686. ii. BURTON Warner 1 .
687. iii. ZELDA Warner 4 .
(617) MARGARET LOUISE MAGEE :; , m. JAMES
HOUSER. Children :
688. i. WALTER Livingston Houser 1 .
226 SlGGINS AND
689. ii. HENRY Lacy Houser 4 .
690. iii. HELEN Estella Houser 4 .
691. iv. ISABEL Houser 4 .
(618) AMOS MAGEE 3 , m. 1st ELIZA RUSSELL; 2nd
MOLLIE TAYLOR. Children:
692. i. ELLA Russell Magee 4 ; by 2nd m.:
693. ii. FRANK Magee 4 .
694. iii. FRED Magee 4 .
(622) JULIA REBECCA MAGEE 3 , m. JOHN RUSH-
ENBERGER. Children:
ELMER Rushenberger 4 .
EUGENE Rushenberger 4 .
JOHN Rushenberger 4 .
ESTELLA Rushenberger 4 .
(625) EMALINE McDONALD 3 , m. JAMES PARKS.
Children :
699. i. WILLIAM PARKS 4 .
700. ii. JOHN Parks 4 .
701. iii. GEORGE Parks 4 .
702. iv. ANNIE Parks 4 .
(626) THOMAS McDONALD •■, m. Louise
Children :
703. i. RICHARD McDonald 4 .
704. ii. FRANK McDonald 4 , m. Moore; 2
children.
705. iii. ELLA McDonald 4 , m. Roy Newkirk ; 2 children.
695.
i.
696.
ii.
697.
iii.
698.
iv.
Other Families 227
(627) JOHN McDONALD ! , m. Harriet Black.
Children:
706. i. ELIZABETH Rebecca McDonald 4 , m. Will
Wheelock.
707. ii. AMBROSIA McDonald 4 , m. Karl Thomas.
(634) NANCY ANN MAGEE 3 , b. May 16, 1846, in
Limestone Twp., Warren Co., Pa. ; m. Oct. 20, 1868,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON MABIE, b. October 8,
1842. Children:
708. i. CLARENCE Alexander Mabie 4 , b. March 4,
1874; d. Oct. 11, 1900.
709. ii. GRACE Emeline Mabie 4 , b. July 5, 1876; m.
June 20, 1901;
Alfred Spates Brady, b. October 8, 1875. Children :
710. i. ALFRED Spates Brady, Jr. 5 , b. Dec. 27,
1904.
711. ii. NANCY Caroline Brady 5 , b. July 21, 1908.
228 SlGGINS AND
SMITH FAMILY.
712. CHARLES SMITH 1 , b. in Ireland; m. Mary Farley;
b. 1807, in Ireland; they emigrated to Broken-
straw township, and settled about four miles
above Tidioute, on a farm he purchased from John
Crawford, who had bought it from Thomas Coul-
ter; he died on this farm and is buried at Mill-
town, Pa. Their children were:
713.* i. JAMES Smith 2 , m. (585), Margaret Magee.
714.* ii. PETER Smith 2 , m. Matilda McGuire.
715. iii. CHARLES Smith-, died unmarried.
716. iv. LUKE Smith 2 , m. Caroline D. Magee (586).
717.* v. NANCY Smith 2 , m. Alexander Grier Magee
(582).
(713) JAMES SMITH 2 , m. Margaret Magee (5S5).
Their children were :
718.* i. CHARLES Smith', m. (565) Fannie Rowley;
both died in Leroy, Minnesota.
MARGARET Ann Smith 1 , m. William Dale.
JAMES Madison Smith 3 , m. Cordelia Rouse
(433).
SAMUEL Smith 3 .
OLIVER Perry Smith 1 , m. 1st Caroline Gran-
din; m. 2nd Ida Kightlinger.
CAROLINE Smith 3 , m. Samuel Blim.
MARY Jane Smith 3 , m. (1103) Darius Hunter.
719.*
ii.
720.*
iii.
721.
iv.
722.*
v.
723.
vi.
724.*
vii
Other Families 229
725.* viii. NANCY Smiths m. 1st Marvin Hale; m. 2nd
Andrew McElhaney.
726. ix. WESLEY Smiths m. and had two daughters.
727. x. JOSEPH Smith 3 , never married.
(714) PETER SMITH-, m. 1st, Matilda McGuire; m.
2nd, Susan (Connely) Magee (No. 426) widow of (584).
Their children were:
728.
729.
730/
NANCY Smith 3 .
i. HUGH Smith,
ii. JOHN L. Smith, m. Ellen Tracy.
(717) NANCY SMITHS m. (582), ALEXANDER
GRIER MAGEE. Their children were:
731.
732/
733.
734.
MARY L. MageeS never married,
i. MARGARET R. MageeS m. Jahu Hunter
ii. CAROLINE D. MageeS d. young,
v. SUSAN MageeS b. Oct. 29, 1842.
735. v. NANCY Ann MageeS m. W. H. Mabie (See
(634).
(718) Charles Smiths m. (566), Fannie Rowley. They
had one dau.
736. i. SARAH Smith 4 , m. Sullivan.
(719) MARGARET ANN SMITH 1 , m. WILLIAM
DALE. Their children were:
737. i. GAYLORD Dale 4 .
738. ii. JAMES Dale 4 .
(720) JAMES MADISON SMITHS m. (433) Cordelia
Rouse. Their children were :
739. i. ELLA Smith 4 , m. Charles Geary, of Bridge-
ville, Pa.
740. ii. WILLIAM R. Smith 4 , of Warren, Pa.
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230 SlGGINS AND
(722) OLIVER PERRY SMITH 3 , m. 1st, Caroline
Grandin; m. 2nd, Ida Kightlinger. Their children were:
741. i. ADELBERT Smith 1 .
742. ii. JAMES Smith 4 .
743. iii. JESSIE Smith 4 , m. Martin.
744. iv. CARRIE Smith 4 , m. Clarence Hovey.
(724) MARY JANE SMITH 5 , m. (1103), DARIUS M.
HUNTER (H. 64). They had one daughter:
745.* i. CARRIE Hunter 4 , m. Daniel Bradford.
(725) NANCY SMITH \ m. 1st, MARVIN HALE; m.
2nd, ANDREW McELHANEY. Their children were:
746. i. STELLA McElhaney 4 , m. Dr. Hannah.
747. ii. TRESSA McElhaney 4 , not married.
748. iii. FAYETTE McElhaney 4 , m. and has two chil-
dren.
749. * iv. BYRON McElhaney 4 , m. Fannie Crawford.
(730) JOHN L. SMITH, m. ELLEN TRACY. Their
children were:
750. i. GRACE Smith 4 .
751. ii. FRANK Smith'.
(745) CARRIE HUNTER 4 , m. DANIEL BRADFORD.
Their children were:
752. i. MARY Hunter Bradford".
753. ii. LIVINGSTON B. Hunter Bradford".
(749) BYRON McELHANEY 4 , m. FANNIE CRAW-
FORD. Their children were:
754. i. MARGARET Rebecca McElhaney .
755. ii. ALICE McElhaney"'.
Other Families 231
LINEAGE OF
(8) ALEXANDER SIGGINS 3 FAMILY.
THOMAS Siggins, of Walsingrange, county Wexford ;
his son
MATTHEW Siggins, m. Margaret Codd;
their son
RICHARD Siggins, m. Margaret Sinot;
their son
EDWARD Siggins, of Balla, m.
their son
WILLIAM Siggins, m. Mary Taylor :
their son
JOHN Siggins, m. Sarah Hood ;
their son
(8) ALEXANDER SIGGINS was a son of John and
Sarah (Hood) Siggins, who were born and married in Coun-
ty Sligo, Ireland. He was born May 1, 1793, on board the
ship in which the family came from Ireland to America:
his father died in 1801, in Center County, Pennsylvania, in
1816 his mother with her family came to Youngsville,
where she died in 1835; he was married in Venango Coun-
ty, November 1, 1816, to Margaret Kinnear and settled at
Youngsville. Alexander Siggins was a blacksmith, and ex-
pert in that business; he owned a large farm extending
from "York Hill" to near the center of Youngsville Bor-
ough; he built the house now occupied (in 1912) by Mrs.
M. B. Davis; "it was the best house in the county, in fact
there are few, if any today, that are better, and although
now nearly one hundred years old, it is still in a good state
of preservation." He joined the Methodist church while
a young man and was a leader in all church matters
throughout his long life in Youngsville.
232 SlGGINS AND
"He lived a quiet and honest Christian life, with nothing
to make a lengthy biography, but Youngsville lost one of
its best citizens when he was called home.
His farm contained a fine tract of timber ; later this was
divided among his children, all except Benjamin receiving
their share. Benjamin had askd that he might be allowed
to use his portion of the estate in obtaining an education.
His wish was granted. Alexander Siggins and his wife
joined the church in 1820. "Uncle Aleck," as he was
familiarly called, organized a Sunday School of which he
was Superintendent.
MARGARET KINNEAR SIGGINS, wife of Alexander
Siggins, was born in Venango County, Pa., December 1,
1801; she was a daughter of Henry Kinnear, Sr., who was
born in Ireland, on Easter Sunday about the year 1764;
son of Robert and Elizabeth (Verow) Kinnear. He was an
officer in the English Army and was sent in 1790 to Ameri-
ca to buy horses for the army; after buying and shipping
the horses, he resigned, and settled in Centre County, Pa.,
where he married in 1797 Margaret Kinnear, b. 1779, in
Leitrim County, Ireland, a daughter of Thomas and Mar-
garet Kinnear. This Margaret Kinnear was a daughter of
William and Jane (Simpson) Kinnear, who lived near Car-
rick, on the Shannon River, in Connaught Parish, Leitrim
County, Ireland. Soon after his marriage he removed to
Youngsville, and was the first merchant in the town; he
died March 6, 1826 ; during his residence in Youngsville he
held many offices of public trust. For a more extensive
history of this family see "The Kinnear Family and their
Kin," by Emma Siggins White, Kansas City, Missouri, 1916.
KINNEAR.
In the year 1165, King William granted to one William
De Kyner, a tract of land in St. Andrews Parish, County
of Fife, Scotland, known as Kyner, or "Kyner Place," the
first transfer of this land was to Symon De Kyner, in 1213
KINNEAR
KINNEAR COAT OF ARMS.
Other Families 233
and the next to his son of the same name, in 1234; it was
next transferred to John Kenner in 1286, and next to his
son of the same name; he held it until 1390. One David
Kenneir was the owner in 1534; he appears to have been a
man of considerable prominence in Scotland and was elected
to Parliament in 1560; he died June 21, 1584, aged 63
years.
The next in line comes John Kenneir, and then David who
died in 1632, then John again becomes heir to the estate,
and his son David was next; he was living and registered
arms in 1672; his motto was: "I live in hope/' His son
David succeeded him, and after his death, the date of which
is not given, his son, James Kennear (this appears to be
the first time the name was spelled as it is now, Kinnear)
succeeded to the estate.
About the year 1680, the family had trouble with the
Catholic Church, and James Kinnear was excommunicated;
in 1682 he removed with his family to Londonderry, Ire-
land, where he died in 1700 ; his son James was father of
two sons, James and Charles Kinnear; Charles married in
1772 and had a son, Charles, who married in 1792; of this
branch of the family we have no further record.
The other son, James Kinnear, married and had a son,
William, who was his only heir and from him descend the
Kinnears of this history.
William Kinnear was married twice; by his first wife,
whose name is unknown, he had one son, James Kinnear,
who married in Ireland, Nancy Atchison, and came to
America before the Revolutionary War.
William Kinnear married second Jane Simpson; they
lived near Carrick, on the Shannon River, in Connaught
Parish, Leitrim County, Ireland; the eldest son, William
Kinnear, married Eleanor Carney; they both died in Ire-
land; they had two children, Ann and William, who emi-
grated in 1791, with their uncle Alexander Kinnear and
his family to America.
234 SlGGINS AND
Between the years 1791 and 1795 the children of William
and Jane (Simpson) Kinnear with their families emigrat-
ed to America, and settled first in Pennsylvania ; from there
their descendants have scattered to all parts of the United
States.
LINEAGE.
WILLIAM Kinnear, m. Jane Simpson; their daughter
MARGARET Kinnear, m. Thomas Kinnear; their daughter
MARGARET Kinnear, m. Henry Kinnear (son of Robert
and Elizabeth (Verow) Kinnear) ; their daughter
MARGARET Kinnear, m. Alexander Siggins; their son
BENJAMIN Baird Siggins, m. Elizabeth Erma Walker;
their daughter
EMMA Siggins, m. John Barber White; their children
Emma Ruth White and Raymond Baird White.
(8). ALEXANDER SIGGINS 3 , John 2 , William 1 , b. May
1, 1793, on board ship enroute from Ireland to America ; d.
April 7, 1858, in Youngsville, Pa. ; m. November 1, 1816, in
Venango County, Pa.
MARGARET KINNEAR, b. December 1, 1801, in Venan-
go Co., d. April 16, 1877, in Youngsville, Pa. Their Children
were :
756.* i. HENRY Kinnear Siggins 4 , b. January 31, 1818,
in Youngsville ; m.
Catherine Lockhart.
757.* ii. REBECCA Siggins 1 , b. January 30, 1820; in
Youngsville; m.
Joseph S. Trask, No. 781 (See Trask family).
MARGARET (KINNEAR) SIGGINS.
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CATHERINE (LOCKHART) SIGGINS.
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758.* iii. MARY Ann Siggins 4 , b. February 8, 1823, in
Youngsville ; m.
Charles Stewart.
759.* iv. JOHN Hatten Siggins', b. June 28, 1825, in
Youngsville, m. 1st:
Mary Jane Siggins (143) ; m. 2nd:
Catherine Lockhart of Meadville, Pa.
760.* v. BENJAMIN Baird Siggins 4 , b. July 27, 1827, in
Youngsville; m. 1st:
Elizabeth Erma Walker; m. 2nd:
Druzilla Belnap, dau. of Philo Gurnsey and Eliza-
beth Mead Belnap (see Belnap family).
761.* vi. PHILETUS Verow Siggins 4 , b. March 13, 1827,
in Youngsville; m. 1st:
Elizabeth Fletcher; m. 2nd:
Mary Wilson.
762.* vii. RACHEL A. Siggins 4 , b. July 23, 1834, in
Youngsville ; m.
Leander A. Chaffee.
763.* viii. CHAPIN Elliott Siggins 4 , b. Dec. 15, 1835, in
Youngsville; m.
Emily C. Salmon.
764.* ix. ROBERT Alexander Siggins 5 , b. August 24,
1840, in Youngsville; m.
Delia Long.
765. x. CAROLINE Siggins 4 , died at the age of 2 years.
768. xi. GEORGE Callander Siggins 1 , b. in Youngsville
Nov. 15, 1843 ; d. June 27, 1864, in Chattanooga,
Tenn. He was a member of Company D 111th
Reg. Pennsylvania Volunteers, mustered into
service November 28, 1861 ; was wounded at the
Battle of New Hope Church (or Dallas, as it is
sometimes called), May 25th, 1864, and died
June 27, 1864, in Chatanooga, Tenn.; he was
first buried in the National Cemetery, grave
236 SlGGINS AND
No. 305, Vet., but afterward brought to Youngs-
ville, and buried beside other members of his
family.
(756). HENRY KINNEAR SlGGINS 4 , b. January 31,
1818; d. January 26, 1893, in Youngsville, Pa.; m. 1841,
in Youngsville.
Catherine Lockhart, b. April 22, 1822 ; d. April 20, 1899,
in Youngsville. He was County Commissioner in War-
ren County several years. Their children were :
769.* i. LAVERN Alexander Siggins 5 , b. March 10,
1842 ; m. May 10, 1863, in Youngsville.
Margaret Bedora Hunter (H67).
770.* ii. WILLIAM Lawrence Siggins 5 , b. December 18,
1843, in Jamestown, N. Y. ; m. 1st:
Mary Smith ; m. 2nd :
Mary Guignon, a sister of Marietta, who married
D. H. Siggins.
771. ::: iii. DAVID Henry Siggins"', b. December 8, 1846;
m. Sept. 2, 1865:
Julia Marietta Guignon, of Sugar Grove, Pa.
772. *iv. MARGARET Adaline Siggins"', b. November 17,
1849; m.
John F. Rounce.
773.* v. ELIZA Delphine Siggins', b. Feb. 7, 1851; m.
William D. Hatch.
774.* vi. BENJAMIN Verow Siggins 5 , b. March 5, 1853 ;
m. Ella J. Owens.
775.* vii. MARY Emaline Siggins", b. April 22, 1855; m.
1st. Millard F. Jaquins ; m. 2nd.
Charles A. Lincoln.
776.* viii. CHARLES Alma Siggins"', b. August 28, 1857 ;
m. Anna Jones.
777. ix. ANNICE Isabella Siggins"', b. June 25, 1860 ; m.
Worth Jaquins.
DAVID HENRY
(7711
SIGGINS.
Other Families 237
JACKSON FAMILY.
Jl.* DANIEL JACKSON, a native of Connecticut,
came in 1797, from near Ithica, New York, to Warren
County, Pennsylvania, was the progenitor of the Jackson
family of western Pennsylvania ; was the first settler in
what later became known as Conawango township, locating
on Jackson run, about a half mile from its mouth, this run
still bears his name.
He built the first saw mill and later the first grist mill
in the county. The saw mill was completed in 1800, and the
first raft of pine lumber, about 30,000 feet, to seek a mar-
ket down the river from Warren County, was manufactured
at this mill and landed in Pittsburgh in the spring of 1801.
To illustrate the isolation of the place and the diffi-
culties of communication, it is related that on one occasion,
a trip was made on snow shoes to Waterford, a distance of
fifty miles, to obtain salt.
The first preaching in the county was by Rev. Jacob
Cram, a missionary of the Congregational church, at the
Jackson home; the first quarterly meeting of the Meth-
odist's was held at the Jackson homestead in Conewango
township, then occupied by Daniel Jackson's son. There
were present at this meeting Bishop McKendree, Rev. Jacob
Young, the presiding elder of the Ohio District, Rev. John
P. Kent, of Chatauqua county, New York, and Rev. William
Connely, of Venango county.
In 1805, Daniel Jackson removed to what is now War-
ren Borough, and erected from lumber sawed at his mill,
the first frame building in Warren, on the lot at the corner
of Water and Hickory streets now occupied by the Citizens'
National Bank ; the building was known for years as Jack-
son's Tavern. In 1806 he was licensed to keep an inn,
238 SlGGINS AND
having been recommended by the court of Venango county,
"as a suitable person for that purpose, and being a tem-
perate landlord."
He was the first constable of his township, being ap-
pointed in 1807; and was commissioned a justice of the
peace by Governor Snyder on May 31st, 1817, who states
in the deed that he reposes "especial trust and confidence in
your integrity, judgment and abilities." A copy of this
deed is in the possession of his descendants.
The Wetmore farm, adjoining and immediately south of
the village of North Warren, was the location chosen by
Daniel Jackson for his homestead in 1797, this property
consisting of nearly six hundred acres, he deeded May 4,
1814, to William Hodges, the consideration being $1,600,
one hundred and ninety-two acres of this land now known
as the Wetmore farm, was deeded by William Hodges Octo-
ber 5, 1816, to Asa Winter and Harvey Conant, and by them
September 16, 1835, to L. Wetmore.
Jl. DANIEL JACKSON, born in Connecticut 1750-51,
died June 20, 1830, in the seventy-ninth year of his
age, and is said to have been buried on his old
homestead, the name of his wife is unknown ; his
children were:
J2.* i. * DANIEL Jackson-.
J3. ii. EBENEZER Jackson'.
J4. iii. ETHAN Jackson 2 .
J5. iv. DAVID Jackson-.
J6. v. SYLVIA Jackson 2 .
J7. vi. RACHEL Jackson 2 .
(J2). DANIEL JACKSON, Jr. 2 , lived in Conewango
township during the' early years of his life, but finally re-
moved to Muchmore bottom, Brooke county, Virginia, now
West Virginia ; of his children we have no record, except his
son:
HOME OF GEORGE SIMPSON SIGGINS.
(53)
HOME OF HENRY KINNEAR SIGGINS.
(756)
Other Families 239
J8. THOMAS W. JACKSON 8 , b. December 16, 1804, in
Conawango township; d. May 21, 1842, in War-
ren; is buried in Oakland cemetery; m. about
1830.
Eveline Gilson King; b. December 5, 1807; died
August 2, 1885 ; daughter of John and Betsey (Gil-
son) King. Children:
J9.* i. JOHN Andrew Jackson 4 ; b. June 28, 1831 ; d.
November 23, 1898 ; m. Jan. 7, 1858, Laura M.
Mead, dau. of John and Sarah (Hoffman) Mead.
J10, ii. ISADORE Jackson 4 .
Jll. iii. DANIEL Jackson 4 ; b. May 5, 1835 ; d. Septem-
ber 5, 1838.
J12.* iv. GILSON Adelbert Jackson 4 ; b. Jan. 26, 1836.
m. 1858, Helen Marr Trask.
J13.* v. BYRON J. Jackson 4 , b. December 2, 1838; m.
September 8, 1864, Anna Alduma Mead.
J14. vi. SARAH Jackson 4 ; m. Davis.
(J9). JOHN ANDREW JACKSON 4 , of Youngsville;
b. June 28, 1831, in Warren; d. Nov. 23, 1898; m. Jan. 7,
1858.
Laura M. Mead, b. near Youngsville, Pa., March 8, 1832.
Children :
J 15. i. ERIE Jackson 3 ; b. October 17, 1860 ; d. 1862.
J16.* ii. SUSAN E. Jackson \ b. April 20, 1862 ; m. 1885.
:: David W. Beaty, eldest son of David and Abigail
(Mead) Beaty, their children are Milton, Helen
and David.
J 17. iii. DARIUS Mead Jackson 3 ; b. May 22, 1864; m.
Addie Thatcher; no issue.
J 18. iv. WILLIAM Jackson 3 , who resides in Youngs-
ville.
240 SlGGINS AND
(J12). GILSON ADLEBERT JACKSON 4 , was born in
Warren, Pennsylvania ; after his marriage he removed to
Honeywell, Missouri, later to Quincy, 111., where he followed
the trade of a printer ; after an absence of about three years
returned to Youngsville, where he spent the remainder of
his life. He was prominent in civic affairs, and extremely
popular with all who knew him, he served as justice of the
peace twenty years and as postmaster three terms; was a
member of the Methodist church and over forty years a
member of the local lodge of Odd Fellows ; b. January 26,
1836, in Warren; d. August 21, 1907, in Youngsville; m.
1858.
Helen Marr Trask (daughter of Augustus Porter and
Ann Eiza (Rue) Trask) ; b. June 12, 1838. (No. 779a).
Children :
J19. i. FREDERICK Brant Jackson'; b. October 3,
1859, at Honeywell, Mo.; m. October 14, 1899.
Donna Anna Cummings ; b. November 3, 1858, near
Sugar Grove, Pa., daughter of Washington
Parker and Sarah McKay (Weld) Cummings.
They have two children :
J20. i. HELEN Sarah Jackson 1 ; b. October 15,
1890. Helen Sarah Jackson", married
Lieutenant Emery L. Dravo, U. S. Army, sta-
tioned in 1918 at San Antonio, Texas.
J21. ii. ALLAN Cummings Jackson 6 ; b. November
21, 1893; m.
Louise Chapman ; he is now, 1918, in the United
States Army.
ADA Jackson"' ; m. M. E. Dunham, she died 1884
BELLE Jackson 5 ; m. C. H. Jacobs.
DORA Jackson"'; m. A. R. Bailey.
J22.
ii.
J23.
iii.
J24.
iv.
Other Families 241
BEATY FAMILY.
The family is of Scotch origin, at a very early date the
sur name is found in Dumfries, Aberdeenshire, and Kincar-
linshire, Scotland. A branch of the family went early to the
north of Ireland and the birth records of 1890 in Ireland
indicate that in the Scotch provinces of Antrim, Downs,
Armagh and Tyrone there were about 3000 of the name
of Beaty or Beatty.
Most of the American families of the surname of Beaty,
Beatty or Beattie trace their ancestry to the Scotch-Irish
pioneers who came to this country in 1728.
John, James and Christiana Beatty came from the north
of Ireland, sailing May 20, and landing in New York Octo-
ber 4, 1728, after a terrible voyage. Among those who
succumed to the hardships of the voyage were John Beatty
and his wife and five children; those surviving the voyage
settled at Little Britian, New Windsor, New York.
Christiana Beaty, widow of John Beaty, Sr., of Antrim,
Ireland, was a daughter of James Clinton, grandson of
Henry Clinton, second Earl of Lincoln ; she married second
James Scott and died in New York City in 1776-7, aged
ninety.
J25. ROBERT BEATY, probably a descendant of the
above, had sons : Robert and Thomas, Robert, Jr., died in
1779, in Newburg, New York, leaving wife Mary and
children: Thomas, John, Robert, Francis, Ann, Elizabeth
and Mary.
J26. THOMAS BEATY, probably a son of Robert, Jr.,
settled at Esopus, New York, near Newburgh, and, about
1810, in Beaver County, Pa., on a farm. Both he and his
wife are buried on the old homestead there: Children:
242 SlGGINS AND
William", John, Jonathan, Benjamin, Nellie, Jane, Mary;
b. August 10, 1790; d. September 16, 1876, in Randolph
Co., 111. ; m. January 19, 1816, James Anderson, of Peters-
burg.
J27. WILLIAM BEATY, son of Thomas ; b. at Esopus
or Newburgh, N. Y., 1764; was a farmer, he served in the
American army in the war of 1812, and was stationed at
Erie, he removed to Beaver county, Pa., and lived there
until his death, June 5, 1858 ; he married Mary Clark, dau.
of David Clark, also of Scotch-Irish ancestry ; she died 1868.
They had fourteen children among them: James, b. De-
cember 23, 1803; d. in Sacramento, California, in the
fifties ; John, b. October 3, 1805, d. in Clayton County, Iowa ;
Thomas, b. 1807, d. unmarried ; William, b. October 5, 1809,
d. in New Orleans; David, * Clark, d. unmarried, at War-
ren, Pa. ; Jane, b. November 7, 1813 ; d. May 31, 1842 ; m.
James Peterman, of Wayne County, Ohio ; Mary, b. Novem-
ber 3, 1815; m. Henry Armstrong Sefton, of Fredericks-
burg, Ohio; Elizabeth, m. Andrew Smiley.
J28. DAVID BEATY, son of William, was born in
Beaver Co., October 26, 1811; was a farmer until 1834,
then engaged in lumbering in Forest and Warren counties,
until oil was discovered, when he began operations on Oil
Creek, eight miles south of Titusville, and was successful
from the start; he continued in this business until he
amassed a fortune; in 1873 he erected a handsome home in
Warren, Pa., where he resided until his death in October,
1889 ; he owned 500 acres of land in Warren county and a
tract of 4000 acres in North Dakota. He married Novem-
ber 16, 1843, Abigail Mead (1339) ; b. March 20, 1820; d.
May 15, 1889 (dau. of Joseph and Hannah (Boone) Mead).
Children :
J29. i. ORRIS WESTON BEATY, b. April 27, 1845;
d. December 18, 1905; m. October 2, 1873, in
Warren county, Pa.
Ellen Woodhouse Smith, b. November 25, 1851,
(dau. of Chauncy and Mercy C. (Mellen) Smith,
Other Families 243
granddaughter of William and Huldah (Wood-
house) Smith). Children:
J30. i WALTER Weston Beaty, b. August 2, 1875.
J31. ii. ALICE Abigail Beaty, b. June 5, 1877.
J32. iii. EDGAR Leidy Beaty, b. December 21,
1886; deceased.
J33. iv. ELIZABETH Beaty, b. September 5, 1884 ;
she attended the public schools of Warren,
the Capen School at Northampton, Mass., and
graduated from the Woman's Medical College
of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, in 1910.
After a year as resident in the Woman's Hos-
pital and service on the Boston Floating Hos-
pital for Babies and Children; she entered
general practice at Warren. She is a mem-
ber of the County Medical Society and the
American Medical Society.
J34. ii. ALBERT Boone Beaty, b. September 2, 1848;
d. 1851.
J35.* iii. DAVID WILLIS BEATY, b. October 15, 1859;
m. 1885;
Susan Evelyn Jackson, b. April 20, 1862; they
live in Warren. Children:
J36. i. MILTON Jackson Beaty, b. October 8, 1886 ;
m. August 24, 1911.
Ruth Townsend Hurmans, b. Corning, N. Y.,
dau. of Harvey C. and Annie (Townsend)
Hurmans. Children :
J37. i. ANN TOWNSEND Beaty, b. October
22, 1914.
J38. ii. MARTHA Susan Beaty, b. Novem-
ber 11, 1917.
J39. ii. HELEN Maude Beaty, b. Oct. 10, 1890 ; m.
June 12, 1914;
244 SlGGINS AND
William Frederick Dalzell, son of William R. B.
and Amanda Dalzell. Children:
J40. i. HELEN Patricia Dalzell, b. March 17,
1915.
J41. ii. DAVID Beaty Dalzell, b. March 11,
1917.
J42. iii. DAVID Willis Beaty, b. June 1, 1895 ; m.
July 31, 1917:
Rachel McNair Talbott, dau. of William and
Harriet (McNair) Talbott.
Other Families 245
TRASK FAMILY.
778a. CAPTAIN WILLIAM TRASK, the immigrant
ancestor, was born in England in 1587-8. He was a very
early settler of Salem, Massachusetts, probably coming
in 1626 before Governor Endicott. He was a member of
the Salem Church August 6, 1629, and made his applica-
tion to become a freeman October 19, 1630. He was ap-
pointed commissioner of the general court in 1632 and was
captain of his militia company that year in the East Regi-
ment and was muster master.
He commanded a company under Endicott in the ex-
pedition against the Pequot Indians in 1637 and was deputy
to the general court in 1635-36-37-39.
After the Pequot war he was granted two large tracts
of land for his services, one of four hundred acres, the
other of two hundred and fifty acres.
Before 1640 he had set up a water mill for grinding corn
and also a fulling mill. His date of birth is fixed from
two statements on the court records, one giving his age
April 22, 1657, as about sixty-nine, another November 29,
1664, giving his age as seventy-seven. When about to
Delft, Holland, he made an affidavit in London, England,
January 15, 1623, that he was thirty-four years old. He
died May 15, 1666.
His will, dated May 15, 1666, was proved June 24, 1666.
He bequeathed to his wife Sarah, providing for the re-
mainder of her life; sons William and John; daughters
Sarah, Susan, and Mary, and to his grandchildren. William
Trask was a brother of Osman Trask, of Salem and Bever-
ley, Massachusetts. Children:
—17
778b.
i.
778c.
ii.
778d.
iii.
778f.
v.
778g.
vi
778h.
vii.
778i.
viii,
246 SlGGINS AND
SARAH Trask 2 ; m. Elias Parkman.
MARY Trask 2 ; bpt. Jan. 1, 1637, died young.
SUSAN Trask 2 ; b. June 10, 1638; m. Feb. 19,
1664, Samuel Ebborne.
778e. iv. WILLIAM Trask-; b. Sept. 19, 1640; m.
Ann Putnam.
JOHN Trask 2 ; bpt. Sept 18, 1642; m. Feb. 19,
1662, Abigail Parkman.
ELIZA Trask 2 ; b. Sept. 21, 1645, died young.
MARY Trask 2 , a twin of Ann.
ANN Trask 2 ; b. August 14, 1652.
RUFUS TRASK, of the fifth generation of the Salem
family and progenitor of the Pennsylvania Trasks, was
born in Salem, where he married Hannah Stacy; in 1799
he removed with his wife and family to Waterford (then
called Fort Le Boeuf), Pennsylvania, where he followed
for many years the tailor's trade. He and his wife died
there and are buried in the old cemetery at that place;
they have many prominent descendants living in Erie
county, Pennsylvania, as well as in other parts of the state,
among them are the Himrods, Strongs, Hunts, Scotts and
Vincents. Mr. Trask, served in the Revolutionary War,
enlisting from Salem.
The children of JOSEPH and HANNAH (Stacy) TRASK
were : •
778j. i. HANNAH Trask 11 ; m. Martin Strong.
778k. ii. MARY (Polly) Trask"'; m. Levi Strong.
7781. iii. SALLY Trask' ; ; m. Theodore Cobern.
778m. iv. ASNEA Trask^ ; m. Ziller, of Youngs-
ville, Pa.
778n. v. RUFUS Trask' 1 .
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778o. vi. JOSEPH Trask 6 ; who was the father of Mrs.
Sarah Himrod and Mrs. Webb Hunt, of Water-
ford, Pa.
778p.* vii. SAMUEL Trask 6 ; b. October 26, 1788.
778q. viii. NAOMI Trask 6 .
(778p). SAMUEL TRASK"; b. October 26, 1788, in
Salem, Massachusetts; d. May 17, 1873, in Youngsville,
Pennsylvania ; married :
Polly Van Kirk. Children:
AUGUSTUS Porter Trask 7 ; b. Jan. 20, 1813.
RUFUS Elliott Trask 7 ; father of Ernest Trask.
JOSEPH S. Trask 7 ; m. Rebecca Siggins (No.
757).
MADISON Napoleon Trask 7 .
MARY Ohio Trask 7 .
AURELIA Reed Trask 7 ; m. James Fletcher
Connely (No. 430).
ELIZABETH Trask 7 .
REBECCA Trask 7 .
HELEN Emily Trask 7 ; m. Larkin.
ASENA Trask 7 ; m. Londer.
JOSEPHINE Trask 7 ; m. John D. Mead.
HANNAH Trask 7 .
(779). AUGUSTUS PORTER TRASK 7 , b. January 20,
1813, probably at Waterford, Pa. ; d. September 27, 1843,
near West Ely, Missouri ; m. November 11, 1836, at Newark,
New Jersey :
Ann Eliza Rue, dau. of Mathias Rue. Among their chil-
dren were :
779a.* i. HELEN Marr Trask s ; b. June 12, 1838; m.
Gilson Adelbert Jackson. (See Jackson family.)
779.*
i.
780.
ii.
781.*
iii.
782.
iv.
783.
v.
784.*
vi.
785.
vii.
786.
viii,
787.
ix.
788.
X.
789.
xi.
790.
xii.
248 SlGGINS AND
(757) REBECCA SlGGINS', b. January 30, 1820, in
Youngsville; d. Jury 10, 1855, agd. 35 years; m.
Joseph S. Trask, b. in Youngsville, Pa., June 18, 1817.
He owned a stage and carried the mails and passengers be-
tween Warren and Garland, and later was proprietor of
Hotels at Youngsville, Warren and Irvine. Children:
791. i. AUGUSTUS Alexander Trask n , b. in Youngs-
ville Pa.; enlisted in April, 1861, as sergeant
in Co. D. 42nd Reg. Pa. Volunteers ("The Black-
tails"). He was in the battles at Drainsville,
Harrisonberg, Cross Keys, Mechanicsville and
Gains Mills, where he w r as taken prisoner; was
exchanged, and later was in the battles of Glen-
dale, Catletts Station, Manassas, and at South
Mountain where he was killed.
792. ii. SILAS Lloyd Trask 3 , b. July 7, 1844, in Youngs-
ville; d. July 12, 1913, in Silver Creek, N. Y.;
enlisted as a private in Co. D 11th Pa. Volun-
teers October 20, 1861. He was in the battles
of Cedar Mountain, Harpers Ferry, Antietam
and other minor engagements; discharged on
account of wounds in 1864. He m. December
11, 1877.
Cecelia E. Hamacher, b. May 19, 1858, a dau. of
Jacob B. and Susan (Shisler) Hamacher.
Children :
793. i. PERRY Newton Trask 4 , b. October 31,
1887; m.
794. ii. NEVA Josephine Trask 4 , b. October 16,
1895. She lives in Silver Creek, N. Y., with
her mother.
795. iii. NEWTON Benson Trask ; , b. February 27,
1847; enlisted September 5, 1864, for service
on the U. S. Gunboat "Springfield," of the Mis-
sissippi squadron; he was in the battles of
Johnsonville, Clarksville, Nashville and Vicks-
Other Families 249
burg; was discharged in 1865 at the close of the
war; d. July 10, 1908; m.
Maria Lena O'Brian, dau. of Daniel and Abbie
(Westrup) O'Brian; she was b. July 28, 1848,
and was killed in an Automobile accident in
Buffalo, N. Y., in May, 1917. Children:
796. i. MAUDE A. Trask\ b. April 8, 1872, in
Dunkirk, N. Y. ; m.
Dr. William Alvin Noble, b. June 16, 1865, in
Napolia, N. Y.; a son of Alvin Stuart and
Beulah Johnson (Buck) Noble. Children:
797. i. NEWTON Alvin Noble 5 , b. June 13,
1895.
798. ii. BEULAH Maud Noble 5 , b. Apr. 9,
1898.
799. iii. TUDOR Omerigo Noble 5 , b. May 10,
1901.
800. ii. JOSEPH Harrison Trask 4 , b. April 13,
1875.
801. iv. WALTER Vincent Trask 3 , enlisted in April,
1861, as a private in Co. D. 42nd Reg. Pa., Vol-
unteers ("The Blacktails"), and was in the bat-
tles of Drainsville, Harrisonberg, Cross Keys,
Mechanicsville, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Get-
tysburg; was taken prisoner at Gains Mills, dis-
charged in 1864 on account of wounds; d. May
8, 1909.
(758) MARY ANN SIGGINS 4 , b. February 8, 1823, in
Youngsville, Pa.; d. May 1, 1896, in Pittsfield, Pa., at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Watson B. Chipman. She had
been a member of the Methodist Church in Youngsville 60
years. Age 73 years; m. 1846, in Youngsville, Pa.
Charles Stewart, b. July 2, 1822; d. March 30, 1882.
Their children were:
802. i. JANE M. Stewart 5 , b. August 7, 1847.
804.
iii.
805.
806.*
iv.
250 SlGGINS AND
803. ii. JOHN A. Stewart 5 , b. January 27, 1850; d.
April 5, 1851.
HENRY K. Stewart 5 , b. March 26, 1852; d.
April 23, 1877; m. 1871, and had one son:
JAMES Stewart, of Kassouth, Iowa.
MARGARET Verona Stewart 5 , b. April 7,
1854; m. Sept. 9, 1877,
Watson B. Chipman.
807. v. FRANK William Stewart 5 , b. July 26, 1856 ; d.
Aug. 4, 1886.
808.* vi. ELNORA E. Stewart 5 , b. Sept. 22, 1861; m.
December 30, 1880,
Charles C. Lacy.
809. vii. ZELLA K. Stewart 5 , b. February 8, 1863; d.
February 3, 1864.
810. viii. CHARLES C. Stewart 5 , b. May 27, 1866.
811. ix. WILLIAM Stewart 5 , b. m.
Jennie They had one daughter:
812. i. VIRGINIA Stewart 6 .
(806) MARGARET Verona Stewart 5 , b. April 7, 1854,
in Youngsville, Pa. ; m. Sept. 9, 1877, in Pittsfield, Pa.
Watson B. Chipman, a son of Norman and Martha (Davis)
Chipman. (Norman Chipman, b. April 12, 1800; Martha
Davis b. Oct. 4, 1828, m. April 22, 1844). Their children
were:
813.* i. MARY E. Chipman 6 , b. October 9, 1878; m.
August 27, 1904,
George Simpson.
814. ii. MYRTLE M. Chipman 6 , b. March 6, 1881; d.
February 9, 1900.
815. iii. MABLE Cleo Chipman 6 , b. June 18, 1884; d.
February 9, 1900.
Other Families 251
(759) JOHN HATTEN SIGGINS 4 , b. June 28, 1825, in
Youngsville, Pa. Enlisted February 5, 1862, as a corporal
in Company K. 12th Reg. Pa., Cavalry. He was with Gen-
eral Milroy in his campaign in West Virginia, and with
General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley; was mustered
out July 28, 1865, at the close of the war. ; d. March 4, 1896,
in Youngsville, Pa. ; m 1st
Mary Jane Siggins, dau. of Nathaniel Hood Siggins (No.
52) ; b. June 23, 1833. Their children were:
816. i. MARGARET E. Siggins 5 , b. April 22, 1856; d.
May 24, 1858.
817. * ii. MARY Eva Siggins 5 , b. Jan. 18, 1859, in Stew-
arts Run, Pa. ; m. Nov. 26, 1878,
Gilbert W. Thompson, of Irvinton, Pa.
(759). JOHN HATTEN SIGGINS 4 , m. 2nd, Sept. 2,
1867, in Meadville, Pa.
Catherine Lockhart, dau. of James and Mary (Stranger)
Lockhart; b. August 10, 1830; d. Jan. 21, 1892. Their
children were:
818.* iii. ANNA May Siggins 5 , b. March 10, 1869, in
Youngsville, Pa.; m. Dec. 25, 1894, in Youngs-
ville, Pa.
William Leonard McCune.
819. iv. ALBERT Alexander Siggins 5 , b. September 27,
1871.
820. v. RUSHTON Wiley Siggins 5 , b. February 8, 1874,
in Youngsville, Pa.; m. October 28, 1906, in
Youngsville, Pa.
Mabel Whiting.
(817). MARY EVA SIGGINS 5 , b. January 18, 1859, in
Stewarts Run, Pa. ; m. Nov. 26, 1878.
Gilbert W. Thompson, d. July 4, 1910. Their children
252 SlGGINS AND
821. i. BESSIE Thompson , b. July 31, 1881; m.
Ray V. Onglay, of Grand Valley, Pa., a son of
Horace Onglay.
822. ii. MARGARET Thompson , b. July 16, 1884 ; m.
Alfred Hinchcliff, of Sinclairville, N. Y., son of
William Hinchcliff.
823. iii. CLARA Thompson 6 , b. January 20, 1887; m.
Ralph P. Mead, an adopted son of Rufus P Mead,
of Youngsville, Pa. Rufus M. was half bro. of
Byron Jackson.
824. iv. FRANCES Thompson 6 , b. May 10, 1889.
825. v. KATHERYN Thompson 6 , b. September 22,
1891 ; m. Arthur H. Hamblin of Brown Hill, Pa.
826. vi. ALBERT Thompson 6 , b. July 2, 1897.
(818. ANNA MAY SlGGINS', b. March 10, 1869, in
Youngsville, Pa.; m. Dec. 25, 1894, in Youngsville, Pa.
William Leonard McCune, b. April 23, 1871, (a son of
John Laird and Eleanor (Kidd) McCune. This family
live in the old home in Youngsville, where the grandpar-
ents Alexander and Margaret (Kinnear) Siggins, lived and
died.) Their children were:
827. i. FLOY Alberta McCune 6 , b. May 1, 1896.
828. ii LAIRD Siggins McCune 6 , b. Feb. 1, 1900; d.
Feb. 26, 1900.
(808). ELENORA E. Stewart"', b. September 22, 1861,
in Youngsville; m. December 30, 1880:
Charles E. Lacy. They have one daughter:
829. i. HAZEL B. Lacy 6 , b. October 25, 1881 ; m. Sep-
tember 29, 1906:
Paul Kleinsanger, of Jamestown, N. Y.
Other Families 253
(813. Mary E. Chipman", b. October 9, 1878, in Pitts-
field, Pa. ; m. August 27, 1904, in Pittsfield.
George Simpson of Clarendon, Pa., son of Stephen
W. Simpson, b. February 29, 1848; d. Sept. 14 1885;
he was 1st., Sergeant, Co. C. 2nd. Regt. U. S. Infantry.
George Simpson was born February 20, 1874.)
830.
831.
832.
833.
GEORGIA Venora Simpson 7 , b. May 30, 1907.
i. DOROTHY D. Simpson 7 , b. Nov. 5, 1910.
ii. WALTER Rex Simpson 7 , b. Oct. 19,1913.
v. GEORGE Simpson, Jr. 7 , b. March 4, 1916.
254 SlGGINS AND
BENJAMIN BAIRD SlGGINS.
Benjamin Baird son of Alexander and Margaret Kin-
near Siggins, was born in Youngsville, Pa. He attended
^Meadville College, studied law and practiced awhile in
Chariton, Iowa; then went to Colorado near Central City,
Gilpin Co., where he engaged for a number of years in
gold mining. Became Judge of the Probate Court. While
the family were on a visit in Warren County, the mother
sickened and died at the home of Kinnear Siggins at Cob-
ham, Pa., near Tidioute. He then married Druzilla E.
Belnap of Youngsville and went to Philadelphia, where
they lived three years. After which they returned to
Warren County, Pa. He was always interested in educa-
tional matters, served as member of the School Board in
Youngsville for six years. While on a visit to his daugh-
ter, Emma S. White, in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1895 or
1896, he wrote the following:
"After I left college, I read a course of law in the office
of George B. Delamater; afterwards I taught school for
three or four years. I was considered quite a traveler for
those days for I had been twice to the adjoining county
of Crawford and had also visited New York state. In the
Spring of 1851, I made the trip from Brokenstraw to St.
Paul going all the way by water to Pittsburg on a raft.
From there I went down the Ohio River to St. Louis and
from there to St. Paul, Minnesota. While there I visited
St. Anthony's Falls, which was the head of navigation for
the Mississippi boats. While in St. Paul I worked in the
office of the Secretary of State; here I met Irvine Siggins,
son of my uncle William.
From St. Paul I went to Iowa and worked with a gov-
ernment surveying party laying out township sites. I soon
Other Families 255
contracted fever and ague and was ill for some weeks. I
fortunately fell in with a man who took the best of care
of me and stayed with me until I had recovered. I then
left the Coon River district near Ft. Des Moines for the
more healthful locality on the Redbank River, — here I
met an attorney Mr. Allen, who made arrangements for
me to call upon a judge in Des Moines before whom I ap-
peared for a verbal examination which resulted in my be-
ing turned over to a committee who finally after a lengthy
questioning on their part, gave me a certificate which
formally admitted me to the Bar at the next term of the
District Court of Lucas Co.
I settled in Chariton in July 1852, and lived with a man
named Henry Allen. The court house was a small two
story log structure, the lower floor being used for public
meetings, post office, court room, etc. Rev. Searcy, the
postmaster, had a method all his own for delivering the
mail. Untying the hemp mail sack, he scattered the con-
tents on the floor and shouted Tick out your mail', all that
was left he carried in his pockets as he went about town
delivering them to the parties to whom they were ad-
dressed." His daughter tells the following:
In the summer of 1861 my father, Benjamin B. Sig-
gins with his family was journeying overland from Iowa
to Colorado, somewhere in Nebraska we became separated
from our friends who were making the journey with us.
We stopped one evening to make camp and were just sit-
ting down to our evening meal when an old Indian chief
of the Pawnee Tribe walked into the tent. Father gave
him a generous helping of warm biscuits, after eating them
he went outside and soon returned with a sharp stick in
his hand, this he proceeded to fill with the biscuits which
remained on the table. After his departure mother made
more biscuits, when we were about to resume our inter-
rupted meal our Indian visitor returned bringing several
members of his tribe with him. These were fed as the
others had been, departing almost immediately thereafter.
When the old chief again returned with still other hungry
256 SlGGINS AND
men father was obliged to refuse to feed them fearing his
supply of flour would not last until we reached the next
town. This angered the Indians and they withdrew to some
distance to hold a council to determine what should be
done with us. At the end of about an hour they returned
and pointing off across the prairie motioned us to be off —
we were not long in taking our departure. It was a very
dark night and not until nearly morning did the stars ap-
pear revealing to us the fact that we had turned com-
pletely around and were driving directly toward the camp
we had quitted so hurriedly the night before. This timely
discovery probably averted what might have easily been
a tragic encounter to say the least.
LAURA SlGGINS MESSERLY.
(760). BENJAMIN BAIRD SlGGINS 4 , b. July 27, 1827,
in Youngsville, Pa.; d. June 14, 1903, in Youngsville, Pa.;
m. 1st., February 20, 1856, in Chariton, Lucas County,
Iowa :
Elizabeth Erma Walker, b. February 20, 1833, in Adair
County, Kentucky; d. July 15, 1864, near Tidioute, Penn-
sylvania. Children :
834.* i. EMMA Siggins*, b. February 6, 1857, in Chari-
ton, Iowa; m. December 6, 1882, in Youngsville,
Pa.:
John Barber White, of Kansas City, Mo.
835.- ii. LAURA Siggins 5 , b. August 15, 1859, in Chari-
ton, Iowa ; m. Sept. 19, 1883, in Youngsville, Pa. :
James 0. Messerly.
836.* iii. CLINTON C. Siggins 5 , b. December 31, 1862, in
Colorado ; m. April 20, 1890, in Hougo Colorado :
Nellie Cunningham.
(760). Benjamin Baird Siggins 4 , m. 2nd., in 1865:
Druzilla Belnap, b. 1839, in Pittsfield, Township, Warren
Co., Pa. ; d. July 9th, 1915, in Youngsville, Pa. (dau. of Philo
CLINTON C. SIGGINS.
(836)
JOHN EARBER WHITE.'
(834)
Other Families 257
Gurnsey and Elizabeth (Mead) Belnap). She was a mem-
ber of the Methodist Church a life member of the Foreign
Missionary Society and an active member of the Young
Woman's Christian Association. (See Belnap family.)
Children :
837. iv. ALBERT B. Siggins , b. 1886 in Philadelphia;
died the same year.
838. v. LIDIA B. Siggins"', b. February 3, 1867, in Phil-
adelphia; d. June 29, 1887, in Colby County,
Kan.; m. in 1886, George W. Hyatt, of White-
hall, New York.
(834). EMMA SIGGINS , daughter of Benjamin Baird
and Elizabeth Erma (Walker) Siggins; married Decem-
ber 6, 1882, in Youngsville, Pennsylvania:
John Barber White, of Kansas City, Missouri.
JOHN BARBER WHITE.
Mr. White's lineage is traced from: Thomas White 1 ,
first mentioned in Merriott, England where he was as-
sessed in 1524, also in Whitecomb, parish of Martock where
he bought land in 1537-8 ; the date of his death is unknown,
but he died prior to 1549; his wife was Agnes Richards
(widow Paul), of Aller.
RICHARD White', his son, was of Hillfarrence, his will
was proved may 6, 1578.
ROBERT Whites was of South Petherton, 1573, and
was buried September 7, 1600.
ROBERT White 4 , was of South Petherton, and was
church-warden, succeeding his father in 1600; he died
March 8, 1642, Chancery Proceedings show that he was
the father of:
JOHN White"', of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachu-
258 SlGGINS AND
setts, who was baptized in the "Old Church" in South
Petherton, Somerset Co., England, March 7, 1602, married
in Drayton Parish Somerset May 28, 1627 Joan West, who
was baptized in the "Old Church" at Drayton, April 16,
1606, they lived for a time in Drayton, about 1638-9, they
came with their family to America, they were at Salem in
August 1639, and at Lancaster, May 1, 1653, where he died
between March 10, and May 28, 1673.
JOSIAH White 6 , born in Salem, now Wenham, Mass.;
baptized June 4, 1643, in the First Church of Salem; mar-
ried first: Mary Lewis, who died soon; he married second,
November 28, 1678: Mary Rice, born in Sudbury, Mass.,
September 4, 1656; they lived in Lancaster where he was
Commander of a garrison house on ye West Side Peni-
cook River, called ye Neck, in 1704; he died November 11,
1714.
JOSIAH White 7 , born in Lancaster, Mass., September 16,
1682 ; married June 26, 1706, Abigail Whitcomb born March
13, 1688; he was moderator, treasurer, representative, se-
lectman, etc.; he died May 5, 1772; he had been deacon of
the first church at Lancaster forty-three years.
JOSIAH White s , born in Lancaster, Mass., January 3,
1714; married March 14, 1739, Deborah House; baptized
in Scituate, Mass., December 16, 1722; they lived in the
part of Lancaster which was set off as Leominster, where
he built the first saw-mill and also "Ye Old Abbey", now
standing on Lindel Avenue; he married second in Rocking-
ham, Vt, September 16, 1779, Elizabeth, widow of David
Pulsipher; he died September 1, 1806, and is buried near
the old church in Rockingham.
His -sons: Josiah, John, Samuel, Benjamin, Abijah, Asa,
Luke and Abel, were all soldiers in the Revolutionary War,
Abel being but seventeen years of age when he enlisted
in 1777.
LUKE White , born in Leominster, Mass., December 8;
baptized in the first church at Lancaster, December 11,
Other Families 259
1757; went when a young man to Charlemont, Mass., and
was one of the first settlers of the new town a part of
which became Heath, in 1785; he married in Charlemont,
November 30, 1782, Eunice White, daughter of his cousin
David White; he enlisted February 1st, 1777, in the Con-
tinental Army and served until 1780; after the death of
his wife he removed with his children to Richville, St.
Lawrence County, New York, where he died March 17,
1837.
JOHN White 10 , born in Heath, Mass., June 10, 1805;
married June 7, 1831, Rebekah Barber born in Charlemont,
Mass., January 16, 1807, daughter of Moses and Rebekah
(Butler) Barber; he went with his father to St. Lawrence
County, N. Y. ; he was a member of the Episcopal Church,
and was educated for the ministry, but did not follow that
profession; after residing about twenty years in St. Law-
rence and Ulster Counties he removed to Chautauqua Coun-
ty, N. Y., and was engaged in the mercantile business
several years, going from there to Union City, Erie Co., Pa.,
where he bought a saw-mill which he ran two years and
then returned to Chautauqua County, and bought a farm
four miles south of Ashville. He died in Harmony Town-
ship, New York, May 23d., 1853; his widow married sec-
ond, Stephen Messinger, who died in 1859; she died at
"White's Mill", Carter County, Missouri, November 19,
1881.
JOHN Barber White", born in Ellery Township, (near
Jamestown), Chautauqua County, New York, December
8, 1847, was brought up on his father's farm, finished his
education at the Jamestown Academy and Jamestown
Union School and Collegiate Institute; became a school
teacher at the age of nineteen and taught three years, re-
moved in 1868 to Youngsville, Pa., where he engaged in
the lumber business ; in 1874 removed to Tidioute, where
he was the owner of a mill and lumber yard, and also
editor and owner of the Warren County News, returned
in 1878 to Youngsville, where he continued in the lumber
business, and served six years as president of the Board
260 SlGGINS AND
of Education; was a member of the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives, term of 1878-1879; in 1880, he with
E. B. and J. L. Grandin, Capt. H. H. Cummings, Jahu and
L. Hunter, of Tidioute, organized the Missouri Lumber
and Mining Company, which commenced business at
Grandin, Missouri, in that year, with Mr. White as general
manager, and later as president; it has become one of the
most successful lumber companies in the west ; its general
offices are at Kansas City, Missouri, with mills and yards
at various points in Missouri, Louisiana and other parts
of the south and west. He was appointed postmaster of
Grandin and served five years. Mr. White is also presi-
dent of the Louisiana Central Lumber Company, the For-
est Lumber Company, of Kansas City, Mo. ; Reynolds Land
Company; the Salem, Winona and Southern Railway Com-
pany; director and secretary of the Louisiana Long Leaf
Lumber Company; secretary-treasurer and general man-
ager of the Missouri Lumber and Land Exchange, of Kan-
sas City; is a member of the Board of Directors of the
New England National Bank of Kansas City; and was
president of the Bank of Popular Bluff at Popular Bluff,
Missouri, from 1886 to 1907.
In 1907 Mr. White was appointed by President Roose-
velt to investigate the affairs of the Cass Lake, Minnesota
Indian Reservation, and his recommendations were favor-
ably acted upon; he was further honored by President
Roosevelt by an appointment as a member of the Forestry
Department in the Commission for the Conservation of
Natural Resources, and became one of the best informed
and enthusiastic leaders of Conservation in America, de-
voting a great deal of his time to this very important sub-
ject.
In 1909 the Governor of Missouri appointed him a mem-
ber of the State Board of Forestry and delegate to the
National Conservation Congress at Seattle.
In 1912 he was elected president of the Fourth National
Conservation Congress at Indianapolis.
RAYMOND BAIRD WHITE.
(841d)
Other Families 261
Mr. White organized the first Lumber Manufacturers
Association in the southern states, known as the Missouri
and Arkansas Lumber Association.
He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and
has proved his descent from twenty-six Colonial soldiers;
he is also a member and vice-president of the Missouri So-
ciety Sons of the Revolution.
He is a member of several historical societies, among
them the New England Historical and Genealogical Society ;
and the Missouri Valley Historical Society, at Kansas City,
of which he was elected president in 1912, which office he
still holds, having been reelected at each succeeding elec-
tion.
He is intensely interested in genealogy and family his-
tory and is the owner of one of the best private genealogical
libraries in the west; he has published a four volume his-
tory and genealogy of the White family, "The Barber Fam-
ily", "The Gleason Family" and the "Ancestry of John
Barber White" one volume each.
In January 1917, President Wilson appointed Mr. White
a member of the United States Shipping Board, on which
he served with Mr. William Denman, Mr. Theodore Brent,
Mr. John A. Donald and Mr. Raymond B. Stevens, six
months, being obliged to resign at the end of that time
on account of ill health.
Mr. White, married first in Cleveland, Ohio, July 22, 1874,
Arabell Bowen, who was born in Harmony Township, Chau-
tauqua County New York, February 22, 1848; she died at
White's Mills, Carter County, Missouri, November 16, 1881.
His children by this marriage were:
839. i. JOHN Franklin Whiter b. November 9, 1875,
in Tidioute, Pa.; as a boy he attended the
schools at Youngsville, where the family re-
sided, and after their removal to Kansas City
he graduated from "Central High" School Class
of 1894 ; later he took a two year course at the
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262 SlGGINS AND
University Medical College, in Kansas City,
then entered the Missouri Medical Department
of Washington University, of St. Louis, from
which he graduated in 1898.
In the fall of 1899, he took charge of the Dis-
pensary and Hospital Department of the Louis-
iana Long Leaf Lumber Company at Fisher,
Louisiana, and was also local surgeon for the
Kansas City Southern Railroad. While there,
on May 9, 1900, he received an accidental gun-
shot wound, from the effects of which he died
in Kansas City on June 11th, following. He
was buried beside his mother in the family lot
in Youngsville, Pa.; in 1900, his father erected
and donated to that city as a memorial to him,
a well equipped High School Building, and in
1916, added to the building an auditorium and
class rooms.
840. ii. FANNY Arabell White 12 , born in Youngsville,
Pa., November 19, 1876; graduated from Cen-
tral High School, Kansas City, Mo., Class of
1896, and from Oberlin College 1902; she was
married in Kansas City, Mo., April 8th, 1903,
to Alfred Tyler Hemingway; born in Oak Park,
111., December 4, 1877, son of Anson Tyler and
Adelaide (Edmunds) Hemingway; whose im-
migrant ancestor, Ralph Hemingway, was born
in England, and was a member of the Church
at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1633 ; and ad-
mitted freeman September 3, 1634; Mr. Hem-
ingway is a descendant of the Tuttle's Thomp-
son's Hoolbrook's Sanfords, Mansfield's, Mun-
son's, Powell's and Paine's, all of whom were
pioneer settlers of New Haven, Connecticut.
Mr. Hemingway, is secretary and general
manager of the Forest Lumber Company, of
Kansas City, where the family reside. Their
children are:
Other Families 263
841. i. FRANKLIN White Hemingway 1 ', born in
Alliance, Nebraska, March 4, 1904.
841a. ii. JANE Hemingway 1 ", born in Kansas City, Mis-
souri, April 29, 1908.
Mr. White, married second, December 6, 1882, in Youngs-
ville, Pa., Emma Siggins, who was born February 6, 1857,
in Chariton, Iowa.
She was graduated from the Youngsville High School
and then taught for a number of years in Warren County.
Graduated from the Pioneer class of the Chautauqua Lit-
erary and Scientific Circle in 1882. Is a member of the Kan-
sas City Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
which she helped organize in 1906. Also member of the
General David Thompson Chapter Daughters 1812. Chair-
man of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Juvenile Improve-
ment Club of Kansas City. In this capacity it is her duty
to look after the welfare of the boys at the Boys' Hotel
which provides a home for about one hundred homeless
working boys which insures for them a proper training and
instruction. Mrs. White was influential in causing to be
passed by the State Legislature March 19, 1915, a law mak-
ing Abraham Lincoln's birthday, a legal holiday in the
State of Missouri. She worked with Mrs. McAdoo's com-
mittee in 1917 in Washington to help sell the first Liberty
Loan Bonds, turning in over one hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars after working with the committee for about
two weeks.
In 1915 was a member of the Mayor's Commission on Un-
employment which found employment for many needy
women through the worst months of that severe winter.
Was elected president of the Jackson County Suffrage As-
sociation in November, 1917. At the State Suffrage Con-
vention held in Macon, Mo., May 10th and 11th, 1918, Mrs.
White was elected Congressional Chairman of the Fifth
Missouri District. In January, 1918, she was elected a
member of the Executive Board of the Young Woman's
Christian Association of Kansas City, Mo.
264 SlGGINS AND
This family are all members of the Westminster Con-
gregational Church. Mrs. White is author of "The De-
scendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland," and "The
Kinnears and their Kin."
Children of John Barber and Emma (Siggins) White:
841b. iii. EMMA Ruth White 12 , born in Youngsville,
Pennsylvania, October 30, 1884 ; graduated from
Wellesley College, in 1907, then took a two year
course in the Department of Economics and So-
ciology, at the University of Wisconsin; in 1911
she made a survey of labor conditions in Kan-
sas City, for the Board of Public Welfare, and
in the summer months when conditions were
most trying visited and investigated the laun-
dries of the city, interviewing at least a thou-
sand of the women operators, her report con-
tains detailed information of the wages, home
life, recreations, etc., and suggested remedeal
State laws for the betterment of women work-
ing in these and other institutions. She spent
the year 1913 in Berlin, studying German. In
1915 she was appointed, by the mayor of Kan-
sas City, a member of the Commission on Un-
employment, and gave several months of very
active service in the work room and store the
Commission operated whereby hundreds of
women were given employment that materially
relieved the suffering caused by the then exist-
ing labor conditions.
In June 1916, she was elected secretary of the
Congressional Department of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association, with
headquarters at 1626, Rhode Island Avenue,
Washington, D. C.
841c. iv. JAY Barber White 12 , born October 2, 1886;
died August 2, 1887.
EMMA RUTH WHITE.
(841b)
Other Families 265
841d. v. RAYMOND Baird White 1 ', born in Grandin,
Carter County Mo., March 18, 1889, graduated
from Westport High School, Kansas City, Mis-
souri, "Class of 1908-9" and entered the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, where he spent three
years ; he then went to Cornell University from
which he graduated in 1914.
Spent a year in travel, then located at New-
ark, Ohio, where he is president and general
manager of the R. B. White Lumber Company;
president of the "Men's Monday Club", treas-
urer of the Rotary Club, and a director of the
Merchants' Association. In 1916 he transferred
his membership from the Westminster Con-
gregational Church in Kansas City, to the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church of Newark, Ohio.
266
SlGGINS AND
OUTLINE EXPLAINING INTERMARRIAGES OF
FAMILIES HEREIN RECORDED.
EMMA (SlGGINS) WHITE
daughter of
First Generation
Benjamin Baird Siggins, and
Elizabeth Erma Walker, his wife
grand dau. of
Second Generation
Alexander Siggins, and
Margaret Kinnear, his wife
Samuel Scott Walker, and
Sarah Ann Allen, his wife
gr. grand dau. of
John Siggins, and
Sarah Hood, his wife
Alexander Walker, and
Elizabeth Scott, his wife
Henry Kinnear, and
Margaret Kinnear, his wife
William Allen, and
Elizabeth Tilford, his wife
gr. gr. grand dau. of —
William Siggins, and
Mary Taylor, his wife
James Walker, and
Margaret Gray, his wife
Thomas Kinnear, and
Margaret Kinnear, his wife
Samuel Scott, and
Elizabeth McCorkle, his wife
Malcum Allen, and
Mary Cunningham, his wife
Third Generation
Fourth Generation
Fifth Generation
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Other Families 267
Samuel Hood, and
Mary Hoskyns, his wife
Robert Kinnear, and
Elizabeth Verow, his wife
Tilford, and
, his wife
gr. gr. gr grand dau. of-
Edward Siggins of Balla, and
, his wife
Alexander Walker, and
Jane Hamer, his wife
John Scott, and
Margaret Thornton, his wife
James Allen, and
Margaret Anderson, his wife
William Kinnear, and Sixth Generation
Jane Simpson, his wife
John McCorkle, and
Elizabeth Ruth, his wife
James Cunningham, and
Margaret , his wife
Richard Hoskyns, and
, his wife
gr. gr. gr. gr. grand dau. of
Richard Siggins, and
Margaret Sinot, his wife
John Walker, and
Katherine Rutherford, his wife
James Kinnear, and
, his wife
Samuel Scott, and
Jane , his wife
Samuel Simpson, and
Hannah , his wife Seventh Generation
James McCorkle, and
, his wife
William Allen, and
268 SlGGINS AND
Mary Budd, his wife
John Ruth, and
, his wife
Robert Anderson, and
, his wife
gr. gr. gr. gr. gr grand dau. of-
Matthew Siggins, and
Margaret Codd, his wife
John Walker, (Of Wigton Scotland) and
Jane McKnight, his wife
Thomas Scott, and
, his wife
John Rutherford, and
Isabella Allein, his wife
James Kinnear, and
his wife Eighth Generation
John Simpson, and
, his wife
Richard Anderson, (of "Goldmine" Virginia) and
, his wife
Edward Allen, and
Mercy Painter, his wife
Thomas Budd, and
Susannah , his wife
gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. grand dau. of
Thomas Siggins, of Walsingrange, and
, his wife
Thomas Scott, and
Margaret Hubbard, his wife
Edward Allen, and
Sarah Kimball, his wife Ninth Generation
Thomas Painter, and
Mercy Lamberton, his wife
Sir Richard Anderson, and
Mary Spencer, his wife
-gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. grand dau. of-
Thomas Scott, and
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Elizabeth Kimball, his wife
William Hubbard, and
Judith Bloose Knapp, his wife
Tobias Allein, and
Elizabeth Northle, his wife
Rev. Richard Allein, and
, his wife
Richard Kembold, and Tenth Generation
Ursula Scott, his wife
Edward Allen, and
, his wife
George Lamberton, and
Margaret , his wife
Lord Robert Spencer, and
Margaret Willoughby, his wife
gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. grand dau. of
Henry Kembold, (of England, will dated Jan. 4. 1558),
and
Sisly , his wife
Henry Scott, (of "Rattlesden" Suffolk, England) and
Martha Whotlock, his wife
Edward Northie, (Mayor of Devizes, Wiltshire, Eng-
land; 1612-22-30-and 36 Eleventh Generation
, his wife
Sir John Spencer, (Knighted in 1588) and
Mary Catlyn, his wife
Sir Francis Willoughby, and
, his wife
gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. grand dau. of
Sir John Spencer, and
Katherine Kitson, his wife
Sir Robert Catlyn, and Twelfth Generation
, his wife
gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. grand dau. of —
Sir William Spencer, (Knighted 1529) and
Susan Knightly, his wife Thirteenth Generation
Sir Thomas Kitson
270 SlGGINS AND
gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. grand dau. of —
Sir John Spencer, (Knighted by Henry VIII.) and
Isabela Grant, his wife
Richard Knightly, and Fourteenth Generation
, his wife
gr.gr.gr.gr.gr.gr.gr.gr.gr.gr.gr.gr. grand dau. of —
Walter Grant of Snittersfield, County Warwick Eng-
land. Fifteenth Generation
WALKER.
LINEAGE OF MRS. JOHN BARBER WHITE (EMMA
SlGGINS.)
JOHN WALKER, of Wigton, Scotland, m. Jane Mc-
Knight.
Issue.
JOHN WALKER, b. in Wigton; m. 7th January 1702,
Katherine Rutherford; emigrated to and settled at Newry,
Ireland, and in 1726-8, he and his family came to America,
and settled at Nottingham Meeting House, Chester Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania.
Issue.
i. ELIZABETH Walker, b. April, 1703; m. John
Campbell.
ii. JOHN Walker, b. March 1705; m. Ann Houston or
Hudson.
iii. JAMES Walker, b. March 1707 ; m. Mary Guff y.
iv. THOMAS Walker, d. young.
v. WILLIAM Walker, d. young.
vi. JANE Walker, b. May, 1712; m. James Moore.
Other Families 271
vii. SAMUEL Walker, b. Dec, 1714 ; m. Jane Patterson.
viii.* ALEXANDER Walker, b. May 1716, m. Jane Ham-
mer, or Hummer.
ix. ESTHER Walker, d. young.
x. JOSEPH Walker, b. July 1722 ; m. 1st., Nancy Mc-
Clung; m. 2nd., Grizelda McCrosky.
xi. MARY Walker, m. John Montgomery ; 2nd. William
Patterson.
ALEXANDER WALKER, b. in Ireland, 19th May 1716;
d. in Rockbridge County, Va., 1784-5 ; (Served in the Colon-
ial Wars) ; m. 8th January 1747: Jane Hammer ( or Hum-
mer), she d. in Woodford County, Ky., in 1798.
(See Virginia Historical Magazine Vol. VIII, No. 3. p. 278-9.)
"John Buchanan, Captain.
Will Evans, Lieutenant.
Joseph Cotton, Ensign.
John Mitchell, Sergeant, Augusta County Va., 1742.
Alexander Walker,
Charles Hays,
John Walker,
Andrew Martin,
Joseph Walker,
Samuel Ealker,
Charles Campbell,
John Gray,
John Moore,
Samuel Gray,
Matthew Lyle,
Thomas McSpeden,
William Armstrong and others.
The above was taken from the collection of Mss. left by
Dr. Lyman Draper to the Historical Society of Wisconsin.
JAMES WALKER, third child of Alexander and Jane
Walker, b. 29th June 1751 ; (Served in the Virginia Militia) ;
m. 8th July, 1778; Margaret (Peggy) Gray, dau. of David
272 SlGGINS AND
Gray. He d. 12th April 1800, and was buried in the Pis-
gah Church Yard, in Woodford County, Ky; she d. 1816,
at the home of her son Alexander in Adair County Ky.
ALEXANDER WALKER, eldest son of James and Mar-
garet (Gray) Walker, b. 15th December 1779; was raised
in Woodford County, Kentucky, but removed |to Adair
County about 1805-6; where he was a farmer and tobacco
planter; m. 1803-4, in Woodford County, Ky.: Elizabeth
Scott, third child of Samuel and Martha (McCorkle) Scott.
Samuel Scott came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone and his
party in 1783, and settled on Dick's River at Boone Station ;
he was a Revolutionary soldier; enlisted at the age of six-
teen as a minute man, and was in the battle of King's
Mountain.
SAMUEL SCOTT WALKER, second child of Alexander
and Elizabeth (Scott) Walker, b. 30th January 1807, in
Adair County, Ky. ; d. 22nd January 1892, in Bartow, Flor-
ida, at the home of his daughter, Rosella Melissa Smith;
m. 26th January 1832: Sarah Ann Allen, only daughter
William and Elizabeth (Tilford) Allen, and granddaughter
of Malcum Allen, of Boutetort County, Va. She was b. 25th
October 1810; d. November 1882, at the home of her son,
Cyrus Scott, in Cowley County, Kansas. Samuel Scott
Walker served as sheriff of Jefferson County, Iowa, four
years, and was postmaster in Columbia, Marion County,
Iowa, over twenty years — when he settled in Jefferson Coun-
ty, Iowa, it was a wilderness. Glasgow now stands on a
part of the farm he then owned. In 1840 he was appointed
by Governor Dodge, Colonel of the State Militia, and by
that title he was ever afterward known.
ELIZABETH ERMA WALKER, eldest child of Samuel
Scott and Sarah Ann (Allen) Walker; b. 20th February
1833, in Adair County, Ky.; d. 29th September 1864, in
Youngsville, Pa.; m. 24th February, 1856, at the home of
her father in Chariton, Lucas County, la.
BENJAMIN BAIRD SlGGINS, b. 27th July 1827, in
Youngsville, Warren County, Pa.; fifth child of Alexander
BENJAMIN B. SIGGINS and Grandchildren (taken about 1892;
RAYMOND B. WHITE. EVERETT J. MESSERLY.
Other Families 273
and Margaret (Kinnear) Siggins. Alexander Siggins, was
b. 1st May 1793, on board a ship on the Atlantic Ocean,
on which his parents John and Sarah (Hood) Siggins, were
enroute to America from their ancestral home in Drum-
cliff parish, County Sligo, Ireland. John Siggins was a
son of William and Mary (Taylor) Siggins, this Siggins
family has been traced to one Thomas Siggins, of Walsh-
grange, County Wexford, gent, by Chancery Decree dated
8th May, time of Edward VI (1547-53) recovered the es-
tates of Walshgrange, Corbally, Knockbrake, Ballyronan
alis Mageston the Church of Culstonse and Tammon.
ELIZABETH ERMA WALKER.
Elizabeth Erma Walker was born in Adair County, Ken-
tucky, February 20, 1833; died in July 1864, at the home
of Henry Kinnear near Tidioute Pennsylvania she attend-
ed a seminary for young ladies in Fairfield Iowa; after
which she taught several terms of school; united with the
Baptist Church when twenty years old; married Febru-
ary 1856, at the home of her parents, near Chariton, Lucas
County, Iowa, Benjamin Baird Siggins, the ceremony be-
ing performed by Rev. Robert Coles. Elizabeth Erma
Walker was the daughter of Samuel Scott Walker, b. Jan.
30, 1807, in Adair Co. Kentucky, on Jan. 26, 1832, he mar-
ried, near Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky: Sarah Ann
Allen, b. Dec. 25, 1810; d. Nov. 1882 in Cowley County,
Kansas. He died Jan. 20, 1892 in Florida. Samuel Scott
Walker was son of Alexander Walker, b. Dec. 15, 1779,
Woodford Co. Kentucky; married 1803: Elizabeth Scott,
b. April 6, 1788; d. Dec. 15, 1779.
JOHN WALKER of Wigton Scotland, was the first of his
line known to the writer, his son, John Walker, married
Katheryne Rutherford in 1702. They came to America
soon afterward, settling in Chester County, Pennsylvania,
but later went to Rockbridge County, Virginia. Elizabeth
274 SlGGINS AND
Erma Walker who married Benjamin Baird Siggins, was
seventh in descent from John Walker of Wigton, Scotland.
Katheryn Rutherford was either a niece or full first
cousin of Rev. Samuel Rutherford, the non-conformist Di-
vine of Scotland, who was imprisoned for his religious be-
lief and practices. This same Katheryn Rutherford was
the grand daughter of Rev. Joseph Allein, author of "Al-
lein's Alarm" and many other religious works. He was
silenced and deprived of his position for non-conformity.
Katheryn's great grandfather Richard Allein was rector of
Batcomble, in Devizes, for upwards of fifty years, and
author of a "Shorter Catechism" and numerous other
works of like character. Another ancestor of Katheryn
Rutherford, Edward Northie, was mayor of Devizes from
1612 to 1635. Elizabeth Erma Walker's great grandfather,
Malcum Allen, served in the French and Indian War under
Captain John Maxwell. — Also Captain Neville's Company
from Albermarle County, Virginia. He also served in the
8th Virginia Regiment during the Revolution.
LINEAGE
EDWARD NORTHIE was Mayor of Devizes, Wiltshire,
England, 1612-22-30-35.
his daughter
ELIZABETH Northie, married Tobias Allein
their daughter
ISABELLA Allein, married John Rutherford
their daughter
KATHERINE Rutherford, married John Walker
their son
ALEXANDER Walker, married Jane (or Hamor) Ham-
mer (Hummer)
their son
JAMES Walker, married Margaret Gray
their son
Other Families 275
ALEXANDER Walker, married Elizabeth Scott
their son
SAMUEL Scott Walker, married Sarah Ann Allen
their daughter
ELIZABETH Erma Walker, married Benjamin Baird Sig-
gins
their daughter
EMMA Siggins, married John Barber White
their chlidren are
EMMA Ruth White and RAYMOND Baird White.
NORTHEY
Arms — Or., on a fesslaz. between three panthers statant
ppr. sesee of estoiles arg. appansy of the first between two
lillies of the third.
Crest — A cockatrice, flames issuing from the mouth ppr.
Motto— Steady.
Seat — Woodcote House, Epsom.
(Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 1177. Pub. 1879).
LINEAGE — The ancient family of Northey was origin-
ally established in Essex, but became subsequently resident
in Wilts.
Sir Edward Northey, Knt. of Epsom, Surrey (2d son of
William Northey, Esq., b. 1651, and grandson of Thomas
Northey, of Eddington, same Co.), was M. P. for Tiver-
ton, Devon, 1710, 1713 and 1714, and Attorney Gen. to
King William III, and Queen Anne. He married Anne,
sister and co-heir of Sir William Jolliffe, and by that lady
(who d. 13 Aug., 1743), had issue: William his heir;
Edward d. 1774, leaving issue : a son William, d. unm. 1808,
and a dau. Anne, d. unm.
276 SlGGINS AND
Anne, m. John Lord Raymond, of Abbots Langley, Lord
Chief Justice. Elizabeth d. unm., 1764. Rebecca, m. Thom-
as Bradshaw, Esq. of Rigby. Sir Edward Northey, Esq., d.
16 Aug., 1723. His eldest son William Northey, Esq. of
Compton Basset, Wilts, M. P. for Calne, 1713, and Wooton
Basset, 1714. He m. 19 Sept. 1721, Abigail, only dau. of
Sir Thomas Webster, 1st bart. of Battle Abbey, Sussex, and
by that lady (who m. 2ndly, Edmund Thomas, 3rd. bart.
of Wenvoe Castle) had issue: i. William, his heir. ii.
Edward; b. 1728; d. 30 May, 1749; iii. Thomas, a mili-
tary officer, who served in several parts of the world, and
lost a leg at the seige of Quebec. He m. Margaret, dau. of
J. L. Hancorne, Esq. of Gower, Co., Glamorgan; and d.
1780, leaving issue: i. Murray, Capt. R. N., m. Mabella,
dau. of Rev. J. Whitby, of Cresswell, Co. Stafford; and d.
1834, leaving an only dau., Jemima, m. Capt. Alldritt, E. I.
C.'s R. E. Quartermaster Gen., m. Laura, dau. of Sir Wil-
liam Paxton, Knt., M. P. of Middleton-Hall, Co. Carmar-
then, and had issue:
Augustus James Millard, Major in the Army.
William Frederick Stewart, 25th regt.
Laura Emaline.
i. Anna, m. John Whitby, Esq., of Creswell Hall, Co.
Stafford.
Mr. Northey d. 10 Nov., 1738, aged 48, and was s. by his
son,
William Northey, Esq. of Compton Basset and Ivy House,
Wilts, L. L. D., F. R. S., Lieut.-Col. of the county militia,
one of the commissioners, for Trade, and Groom of the
Chamber to King George III. He represented Calne, 1747,
Mailstone, 1762, and Bedwin, 1770. He m. Anne, dau. of
Right. Hon. Edwin Hopkins, M. P., Sec. of State for Ire-
land ; and d. 1770, having had,
i. William, his heir; ii. Edward, a successor to his
brother ; iii. Richard, of Oving House, a Gen. in the army
who s. to the estates of the Hopkin's family, and assumed
LAURA (SIGGINS) MESSERLY.
(835)
Other Families 277
the name and arms of Hopkins; d. 1756; m. 1st, 1777;
Frances, dau. of John Wray, Esq., of Monaghan, and had
by her issue:
i. William Richards, his heir; i. Anne; ii. Frances.
He m. 2ndly, Miss Thompson, and by her had issue :
2. Richard, late Capt. 8th. Hussars.
3. Lucy, m. J. Rowley, Esq., and d. s. p.
4. Harriet, m. Charles Shrader, Esq.
5. Julia, m. Capt. Hamilton Shum, of the 31st. regt.
6. Emma, m. Henry Lee Patourel, Esq. of Sidbury Cas-
tle, Devon.
Gen. Northey Hopkins, d. 26 April, 1845, and was s. by
his son.
William Richard Hopkins Northey, Eisq., of Oving House,
Bucks, J. P., formerly a Capt. in the army, and Aide-de
Camp to the Duke of Richmond, when Lord Lieut, of Ire-
land, m. Ann Elizabeth, dau. of Gerald Fortescue, Esq., of
Co. Louth, and by her (who d. 13 April, 1864) had Richard
Arthur Fortescue, who d. on service in the 17th year of his
age. Fannie Elizabeth; m. 25 Jan., 1830, George Ives, 4th
Lord Boston, and d. 1860, leaving issue.
Geraldine, m. 1838, Joseph Pratt Tynte, Esq., of Tynte
Park, 2nd son of Col. Pratt, of Cabra Castle, Co. Cavan, by
Jemima Roberta, his wife, dau. of Sir James Tynte, Bart.
Adelide; Antoinette; Eulalie Emily; m. James Agg Gard-
ner, Esq., of Cheltenham.
LAURA SIGGINS MESSERLY.
(835) Laura Siggins"', b. August 15, 1859, in Chariton,
la., m. September 19, 1883, in Youngsville, Pa.
James O. Messerly, a son of Jonas and Sarah (Alspaugh)
—19 B
278 SlGGINS AND
Messerly. They reside in Warren, Pa., and are members
of the Methodist church. Their children are :
842. i. WARREN B. Messerly 6 , b. November 4, 1884,
in Baltimore, Ohio. Graduated from the West-
?nghouse Electrical Department, Pittsburg, Pa.
Is now with the Kansas City Street Railways
Company, in Kansas City, Mo. He married in
Winfield, Kansas, February 16, 1916.
Ruth Tisdale Bangs, b. November 23, 1890, a
daughter of Arthur C. and Caroline (Craps-
ler) Bangs, of Winfield. The emigrant ancestor
of Ruth Tisdale Bangs, Edward Bangs 1 , came
in the "good ship Anne" in 1623, to Plymouth
Colony; his son Jonathan Bangs 2 , served as
Captain in the Colonial Wars, had a son James
Bangs 3 , and his son Oliver Bangs 4 , had a son
Dr. John Bangs", and his son Frederick A.
Bangs 6 , was the father of Arthur Clarence
Bangs 7 , of Winfield, Kansas, father of Ruth
Bangs 8 Messerly.
843. ii. EVERETT J. Messerly 6 , b. October 18, 1865, in
Warren, Pa., m. June 19, 1908, in Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Rillia Vadia Boli, b. July 6, 1889, a dau. of Frank
S. (b. May 7, 1862), and Flora (Jack) Boli
(b. June 24, 1862; m. June 19, 1882). They
have one son:
844. i. BERTRAM J. Messerly 7 , b. January 11,
1913.
845. iii. JAMES Harold Messerly 6 , b. September 24,
1895, in Warren, was a student at the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, and editor of the engineer-
ing department of the junior year paper, and
had nearly completed his four year course when
he was called to serve his country in the war
with Germany. He was in training at Allen-
town, Pa., during the summer of 1917, and in
JERRY LLOYD SIGGINS.
(849)
Other Families 279
October was sent to France with the Hospital
Reserve Corps, No. 27; in France he became a
member of Battery "F," 150th Field Artillery.
(836). CLINTON C. SIGGINS 3 , of Twin Falls, Idaho;
born December 31, 1862, in Colorado, married April 20,
1890, in Hugo, Colorado.
Nellie Cunninghom; born May 26, 1870; daughter of
(Jerry, b. May 15, 1835, near Cattam, Canada, and Jose-
phine (Ballard) Cunningham, d. 1897).
They removed to Boise Cit, Idaho, where Mr. Siggins
was a Justice of the Peace four years, and later Deputy
Auditor and Recorder of Ada County, he removed to Twin
Falls, Idaho, in 1910 ; in 1912 he was appointed Land Com-
missioner for a term of four years; in December, 1916,
reappointed, his office is at Twin Falls. Their Children are :
846. i. LEONA May Siggins 6 ; b. January 20, 1891, in
Des Moines, Iowa; m. November 15, 1911, in
Twin Falls, Idaho.
John Vance Dingman, b. October 22, 1885, near
Tyro, Kansas, son of (James Wilson, b. Aug. 8,
1855, in Niatic, 111., and Elizabeth Ellen (Hard-
ing) Dingman, b. June 29, 1855).
Their children are :
847. i. NELLIE May Dingman 7 , b. May 23, 1914.
848. ii. JOHN Siggins Digmam, b. June 25, 1916.
849. ii. JERRY Lloyd Siggins 6 , b. March 14, 1894 ; m.
August 2, 1917:
Mary Ellen Douglas, b. February 12, 1898, dau
of Thomas James Douglas, b. Stratford, Can-
ada, June 23, 1867 ; m. May 12, 1897 ; Margaret
Van Horn, b. April 12, 1865, at Marion Centre,
Pennsylvania.
850. iii. BENJAMIN Boyd Siggins ,; , twin brother of
Jerry Lloyd Siggins, b. March 14, 1894 ; d. June
29 1894, in Boise City, Idaho.
280 SlGGINS AND
851. iv. HOWARD Edwin Siggins 6 , b. August 8, 1895,
in Boise City.
852. v. EDNA Louise Siggins", b. October 23, 1909, in
Boise City.
(761). PHILETUS VEROW SIGGINS 4 , b. March 13,
1833, in Youngsville, Pa. ; d. 1 :30 a. m., Sunday, August 9,
1908, in Roseville, California ; m. 1st about 1857, in Youngs-
ville, Pa.
Elizabeth Fletcher, they had one son. He married 2nd
Mary Wilson ; no children.
853. i. LOUIS F. Siggins 5 , b. November, 1858, in
Youngsville, Pa.; d. October 12, 1902, in Rose-
ville, California.
(762) . RACHEL A. SIGGINS 4 ; was a lifelong member
of the Methodist Church; her membership was to her a
reality — her name on the church register was an emblem
of her membership in the "Lord's Book of Life," the spirit
of her master was reflected in her daily life, through the
years of her earthly pilgrimage her nature added much of
brightness and comfort to the life of her family and friends ;
her daughters, Amy, Mary and Fannie, preceded her to the
"other shore," her husband, her daughters, Alice and Clara,
and her son Henry survive her ; the two latter now live in
Chicago. The memory of her beautiful christian life will
long remain to comfort her many friends. Born July 23,
1835, in Youngsville, Pa.; d. December 10, 1912, in Jules-
burg, Colorado; m. 1857, in Youngsville, Pa., Leander A.
Chaffee, b. Jan. 23, 1834 ; d. June 22, 1899.
In 1865 they moved to Lanark, 111., and to Julesburg in
1908. Children:
854. i. AMY Irene Chaffee"', b. August 12, 1858, in
Youngsville, Pa.
855.* ii. ALICE Bell Chaffee"', b. August 10, 1861, in
Youngsville; m. Loren Gilbert Burrows.
Other Families 281
856*. iii. HENRY George Chaffee"', b. August 7, 1864,
in Youngsville, Pa. ; m. Jessie Lee Small.
857. iv. MARY D. Chaffee"', b. Oct. 18, 1866 ; d. Aug. 7,
1867.
858. v. CLARA M. Chaffee"', b. March 11, 1869.
859. vi. FANNIE Chaffee"', b. Oct. 20, 1871 ; d. Nov. 20,
1872.
(855). ALICE BELL CHAFFEE"', b. August 10, 1861,
Youngsville, Pa., m. Nov. 12, 1898, in
Loren Gilbert Burrows, b. Feb. 16, 1857, in Walworth
County, Wisconsin. Their children were :
860. i. ROBERT Chaffee Burrows 6 , b. May 11, 1899,
in Cavanna, 111.
861. ii. ALICE Winefred Burrows", b. June 23, 1904, in
Savanna, 111.
(856). HENRY GEORGE CHAFFEE', b. August 7,
1864, in Youngsville, Pa. ; m. July 20, 1903, in Chicago, 111.
Jessie Lee Small, who was born "On a sunny morning"
June 9, 1880; in Cumberland, England; they have one
daughter :
862. ALICE May Chaffee' 1 , b. April 15, 1907, in St.
Louis, Mo.
(763). CHAPIN ELLIOTT SIGGINS', b. December 15,
1836, in Youngsville, Pa.; d. April 16, 1883, Mt. Vernon,
Iowa; m. April 25, 1857, in Warren, Pa.
Emily C. Salmon, dau. of John Salmon; b. December 2,
1840, in Warren, Pa. ; d. August 16, 1904, in Mt. Vernon.
Iowa. Their children were :
863. i. DORA Siggins"', b. April 25, 1858, in Youngs-
ville, Pa. ; d. 1884 ; m. June 8, 1882.
Robert King, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
864.* ii. BURDETTE A. Siggins"', b. Youngsville, Pa.,
282 SlGGINS AND
November 5, 1860 ; m. 1st, Lucy Corder ; m. 2nd,
Lillian Berger.
865. iii. BELLE Siggins 5 , b. in Youngsville, Pa.. De-
cember 1, 1861. Not married, lives in Los An-
geles, Cal.
866.* iv. GUY Siggins 5 , b. in Youngsville, Pa., May 26,
1866; m. Minnie Parcell.
867. v. CLYDE Siggins 5 , of Youngsville, Pa. ; b. Octo-
ber 11, 1869, in Tennessee; d. June 6, 1888, in
Tennessee.
(864) . BURDETTE A. SIGGINS 5 , of Milwaukee, Wis. ;
b. November 5, 1860, in Youngsville, Pa. ; m. 1st, July 23,
1887.
Lucy Corder. Their children were.
868. i. VERNON Siggins 6 , b. June 12, 1888; d. Sept.
1888.
869. ii. HAZEL Siggins , b. August 18, 1889.
870. iii. GEORGE Siggins , b. December 22, 1891, liv-
ing at 741 Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, Wis.
(864). BURDETTE A. SIGGINS', m. 2nd, December
2, 1903.
Lillian Berger. No children.
(866) GUY SIGGINS 5 , of Mt. Vernon, Iowa ; b. May 26,
1866, in Youngsville, Pa. ; d. ; m. 1890.
Minnie Parcell, a dau. of Samuel and Margaret (Max-
well Parcell, of Carroll County, Ohio. (Samuel b. April
7, 1831 ; Margaret b. November 11, 1833). Their childrc
were :
871. i. HARRY Siggins , b. February 4, 1891.
872. ii. LOUIS Siggins 6 , b. February 9, 1893.
873. iii. ADELLA Siggins 6 , b. October 11, 1897.
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874. iv. RAYMOND Siggins , b. December 26, 1903.
875. v. FOREST Siggins", b. May 13, 1906.
■ (764). ROBERT ALEXANDER SIGGINS 4 , of Youngs-
ville, Pennsylvania ; b. August 24, 1840, in Youngsville ; m.
September 23, 1871, in Sugar Grove, Pa.
Cordelia Catherine Long; b. May 30, 1841, in Pittsfield
Township, Pa.; d. January 12, 1917, in Youngsville, Pa.
Children :
876. i. GEORGE Hugh Siggins 3 , b. August 14, 1872.
Rail Road Agent at Irvineton, Pa. ; not married.
877. ii. HATTIE M. Siggins' 1 , b. July 21, 1874; lives in
Youngsville, Pa.
878. iii. HALLIE R. Siggins', b. March 8, 1878; lives in
Denver, Colo.
Ancestry of Cordelia Catherine Long, wife of Robert
Alexander Siggins.
In 1800 George and Isabel (McCormick) Long, settled in
Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pa., about three
miles west of Garland, here their son:
Hugh Long was born February 20, 1802, being the first
white child born in the township.
George Long built the first mill in the township; in
1808-9, he sold his property to Daniel Horn and removed
to Pittsfield township, where he built a saw mill ; here
he continued to reside until he died in 1854; his widow
died in 1858; George Long and Isabell McCormick, were
married in Lycoming County, Pa., in August, 1792.
He was in the Revolutionary War and received a pen-
sion ; he was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at York-
town. Their son :
Hugh Long was born February 20, 1802, married Octo-
ber 26, 1826. Eleanor Gray, born November 15, 1806 ; he
died in August, 1899, aged ninety-seven years and six
months ; his wife died in September, 1847.
284 SlGGINS AND
He was constable four years; justice of the peace ten
years; school director fifteen years; auditor and assessor
several years. Their daughter:
Cordelia Catherine Long, was born May 30, 1841.
(769). LAVERN ALEXANDER SlGGINS; died
March 8, 1893, at his home, No. 11 Elm Street, Warren,
Pa. ; he was born March 10, 1842, at Youngsville, Pa., and
has lived in this county practically all his life, the last
forty years having been spent in Warren and vicinity.
He owned and resided for many years on the farm now
occupied by Mrs. A. Graham and Son, Florists, and was for
quite a long time engaged in the livery business in Warren.
During the latter years of his life he has resided in
Warren and devoted most of his time to the care of his oil
property; he was a man of exemplary habits throughout
life, and in his business and social dealings represented an
unquestioned integrity, industry and sterling merit which
were remarked by all with whom he came in contact.
He was of a retiring disposition, finding much of his
enjoyment within his home circle, but revealed an unusually
sympathetic and kindly nature to all those who were priv-
iledged to know him.
As a citizen he was unpretentions, but was interested in
all things pertaining to the public welfare and contributed
real merit to the duties of citizenship.
He leaves to survive him, in addition to his wife, three
sons ; Clyde and Ray of Cody, Wyo., George of Warren, Mrs.
John D. Wells, of Buffalo, Mrs. W. S. Clark, of Warren, two
of his daughters ; three brothers also survive : William L.,
David H, and Benjamin V. ; also four sisters, Mrs. J. F.
Rounce, Mrs. William D. Hatch, Mrs. Charles A. Lincoln
and Mrs. Worth Jaquins, "and Edna L. Siggins, a daugh-
ter."
Died May 14th, 1915. MRS. MARGARET B. Siggins,
widow of the late Lavern Alexander Siggins.
Other Families 285
"Fate has measured and snipped the life of another
Tidiouter, this time calling into death Mrs. Margaret B.
Siggins, of Warren, who passed away Friday afternoon
after two weeks' illness ; the funeral was held Monday last,
interment being private at Oakland Cemetery, in Warren.
She is survived by the following children: J. C. and
R. B. Siggins of Cody, Wyo. ; Edna Louise Siggins, Mrs.
J. D. Wells, Mrs. W. S. Clark, and George H. Siggins, two
sisters also survive, Mrs. D. B. Everett, of Jamestown, and
Mrs. Louise Tipton. Mrs. Sigging was a daughter of Mat-
thew P. and Sarah (Magill) Hunter; she was born and
spent most of her life in this community, schooled in the
hardy democratic ways of this frontier section, and com-
ing from Scotch-Irish stock, she was ever noted for her
cheerful and charitable disposition and sterling character,
this is attested by her friends in this locality as well as by
her neighbors in Warren.
Her husband, Lavern Alexander Siggins, to whom she
was married May 10, 1863, died March 8, 1913, they moved
to Warren from Tidioute in 1868; Mrs. Siggins was 69
years of age, she was a member of the First M. E. Church
in Warren and was active in various church organizations."
(769) LAVERN ALEXANDER SIGGINS', of Warren,
Pa.; b. March 10, 1842, in Youngsville, Pa.; d. March 8,
1913, in Warren, Pa. ; m. May 10, 1863, in Tidioute, Pa.
Margaret Bedora Hunter (dau. of Matthew and Sarah
(Magill) Hunter).; d. May 14, 1815, in Warren, Pa.
Their children were :
879. i. FRANK Elbert Siggins , b. February 19, 1864,
in Tidioute, Pa. ; m. May 4, 1892.
Minnie Pearl Ellis, dau. of Nancy Eliza Ellis.
They have one daughter:
880. i. MARGARET Elizabeth Siggins 7 , b. Aug.
15, 1893.
881. ii. SARAH Blanch Sigginsf', b. May 24, 1866,
in Tidioute, Pa.; d. June 29, 1912, in Warren,
286 SlGGINS AND
Pa., after having been an invalid for over a year ;
she taught school about twenty years, and then
became a trained nurse.
882.* iii. JOHN Clyde Siggins , of Cody, Wyoming; b.
April 12, 1869, in Warren, Pa. ; m. September
26, 1896, in Warren, Pa.
Nancy Mendell Shope.
883. * iv. NEVA Catherine Siggins 6 , b. February 9, 1872,
in Warren, Pa. ; m. John D. Wells. Their home
is in Buffalo, N. Y.
884. v. EDNA Louise Siggins , b. June 2, 1874, in
Warren, Pa.
885.* vi. RAY Benson Siggins , b. February 22, 1877,
in Warren, Pa.; m.
Elizabeth Cogswell.
886. vii. LILLIAN Ethel Siggins , b. March 18, 1879,
in Warren, Pa. ; m. June 20, 1907, in Warren,
Pa.
William S. Clark, District Attorney, in Warren
Co., 1907, a son of John and Elizabeth (McMul-
len) Clark.
John Clark with his parents, brothers and a sister
came to Warren in 1848; Elizabeth McMullen,
with her parents, four brothers and four sisters,
came from Bainbridge, Ireland, where she was
born in 1841, to Warren in 1850. John Clark
died in Warren, Pa., in Jan., 1917.
887. vii. GEORGE HUNTER SIGGINS , b. August 2,
1881, in Warren, Pa.; m. June 24, 1902, in
Warren, Pa.
Jennie Burkett. They have two sons :
888. i. STEWART Laverne Siggins 7 , b. June 8,
1903, in Warren Pa.
889. ii. WILLIAM Hunter Siggins 7 , b. May 26,
1912.
JOHN D. WELLS.
(SS3)
Other Families 287
882) JOHN CLYDE SIGGINS", of Cody, Wyo. ; b. April
12, 1869, in Warren, Pa. ; m. Sept. 26, 1896, in Warren.
Nancy Mendall Shope. Their children were:
890. i. FRANK Edward Siggins 7 , b. January 28, 1897.
891. ii. MILDRED Lucille Siggins 7 , b. Feb. 28, 1900.
892. iii. NATALIE Siggins 7 , b. November 19, 1906.
893. iv. JANNETTE Siggins 7 , b. February 4, 1908.
(883) NEVA CATHERINE SIGGINS", b. February 9,
1872, in Warren, Pa. ; m. June 9, 1897, in Warren, Pa.
John D. Wells, b. Sept. 9, 1876. Their children were :
894. i. BLANCHE Loraine Wells 7 , b. May 28, 1902.
895. ii. ANNETTE Jane Wells 7 , b. March 11, 1906.
896. iii. JOHN D. Wells, Jr. 7 , b. December 15, 1909.
(885) RAY BENSON SIGGINS 6 , of Cody, Wyo.; b.
February 22, 1877, in Warren, Pa. ; m. October 2, 1902, in
Sinclairville, N. Y.
Elizabeth Cogswell. Their children were:
897. i. RAYMOND Siggins 7 , b. June 11, 1905, in Louis-
iana.
898. ii. HAROLD C. Siggins 7 , b. June 4, 1907.
899. iii. DONALD Siggins 7 , b. September 9, 1909.
JOHN D. WELLS was born in Northeast, Pennsylvania,
Sept. 9, 1876, son of Wm. Delaney and Marilla A. Wells;
mar. Neva Catherine Siggins June 9, 1897. His journalistic
work began on the Erie Dispatch, the Cleveland Plain Deal-
er and Buffalo Morning Review. While on the staff of the
latter, he did some very creditable special work in connec-
tion with the Pan-American Exposition. As an eye wit-
ness of the assassination of President McKinley, his ex-
clusive stories brought instant recognition in the news-
paper field. His story of the tragedy was published in Col-
288 SlGGINS AND
liers, Harpers and other well known magazines. In 1902
Mr. Wells became associated with the Buffalo Evening
News where he is at present occupying the position of
Managing Editor. His column "From Grave to Gay" in
this publication has brought Mr. Wells much fame as a
verse writer and fun maker. He is generally designated
as the logical successor of the Hoosier Poet. His popular-
ity on the lecture platform would seem to predict that he
may one day wear the mantle of Riley. The American
Press Association honored him by electing him as their
president.
WHEN THE FLAG GOES BY.
(Thus speaks Private Thompkins, veteran
of foreign service.)
Love of the flag? Well, what do you know of it? —
What do the men of your kind ever show of it,
But stand on your legs when the colors go by
And yelp with the others and never know why?
What do you know, who dodge all the wars
And don't know the colors except at bazaars?
Love of the flag? Well, what do you know of it? —
Men of your kind who ne'er saw the glow of it
Against the black sky at the end of the day
When crimson and daylight were ebbing away?
What do you know, who never surmise
How easy a soldier can smile when he dies?
Love of the flag? Well, what can you tell of it?
Never saw a battle, and don't know the smell of it!
And yet you will boast of your love for the flag,
And don't know the cost of the starry old rag! —
Don't know the cost in death and in woe,
And don't stop to think of the debt that you owe!
Love of the flag? Well, if you would know of it,
Other Families 289
Out on the skirmish line men make a show of it;
It's not the bright colors you see at bazaars,
But tattered and frazzled by heathenish wars !
Hark while the sergeant is checking the "Lost" —
That's love of the flag and the price that it cost!
JOHN D. WELLS.
(770) WILLIAM LAWRENCE SIGGINS', b. in .lames-
town, N. Y., December 18, 1843; m. 1st,
Mary Smith, d. September 2, 1881 ; no children ; m. 2nd,
Mary Guigon. Their children were:
900.
901.
902.
RUTH F. Siggins 6 , b. December 16, 1887.
PAUL Orion Siggins*, b. October 17, 1897.
MARC Wesley Siggins 6 , b. October 25, 1893.
290 SlGGINS AND
THE HUNTER FAMILY.
HI. Robert Hunter 1 , b. 1758, in Tyrone County, Ireland;
m. Abt. 1786, Elizabeth Park, b. 1762. He was of Scotch-
Irish parentage. Tradition says he had three brothers:
Samuel, who settled in the Isle of Man.
William, who remained in Ireland.
Jared, who came with Robert to America in the latter
part of the 18th century; they with three of their neigh-
bors, named Gilson, Broadfoot and Henderson, with their
families sailed from the port of Londonderry, Ireland, and
landed at Philadelphia; the Gilsons, Broadfoots and Hen-
dersons settled in Titusville; Robert and Jared Hunter set-
tled in the western part of Pennsylvania in a wilderness,
now Centre County; each "located" 100 acres of land near
what is now Enterprise, Warren County; in 1808, Robert
Hunter sold his land and bought a farm on the east side
of the Allegheny, about two miles below Tidioute creek,
which is still in the possession of the Hunter family; here
he built a log house, cleared and cultivated the land, went
to Pittsburg in a canoe for supplies, and he and his wife
reared a family of ten children.
H2.* i. JANNETTE Hunter 2 , m. John Tuttle, of Lodi,
N. Y.
H3. ii. JEAN Hunter-, b. December 29, 1786; m. Dec.
3, 1805, Frank Tuttle, b. 1777.
H4.* iii. VIOLET Hunter 2 , m. Richard Henderson.
H5.* iv. SAMUEL Hunter 2 , m. Polly Culbertson.
H6.* v. WILLIAM HUNTER 2 , b. August 19, 1792 ; m.
Dorcas Magill (1114).
Other Families 291
H7.* vi. ELIZABETH Hunter-, m. Thomas Morrison.
H8.* vii. SARAH Hunter-, m. Isaac Jones.
H9.* viii. MARGARET Hunter 2 , m. Thomas Morrison.
H10.* ix. ROBERT Hunter 2 , m. Louisa Manrose.
Hll.* x. MATTHEW Hunter 2 , m. Sarah Magill (1115).
(One account of the family says: Robert Hunter 1 was
born in County Cork, but if as stated they sailed from Lon-
donderry, it is more probable that he was born as stated
above, in Tyrone, as both Tyrone and Londonderry are in
the "North of Ireland" while County Cork is in the south.)
Ed.
(H2) Jannette Hunter 2 , b. December 26, 1776 (1786) ; m
John Tuttle, of Lodi, N. Y. Children:
H12.
i.
JEANETTE Tuttle 3 .
H13.
ii.
MARGARET Tuttle 3 .
H14.
iii.
JAMES Tuttle 3 .
H15.
iv.
WILLIAM Tuttle 3 .
H16. v. JOHN Tuttle 3 .
(H4) Violet Hunter 2 , b. November 4. 1789; m.
Richard Henderson. Children:
H17. i. JAMES Henderson 3 .
H18. ii. WILLIAM Henderson 3 .
H19. iii. JAHU Henderson 3 .
H20. iv. RICHARD Henderson 3 .
H21. v. DANIEL Henderson 3 .
(H5) Samuel Hunter 2 , b. May 18, 1791; m.
Polly Culbertson. Children:
H22. i. JOHN Hunter 3 , d. young.
H23.* ii. MATTHEW Hunter 3 , m.
Phebe Richardson.
292 SlGGINS AND
H24.* iii. SAMUEL Hunter 3 , m.
Melissa Pownell.
(H6) William Hunter 2 , b. August 19, 1792; m.
Dorcas Magill (1114). Children:
MATTHEW Park Hunter 3 , b. May 17, 1823.
ISAAC K. Hunter 3 , b. September 24, 1826.
CHARLES M. Hunter 3 , b. March 19, 1829.
METHITABEL J. Hunter 3 , b. January 10.
1831.
ROBERT Jackson Hunter 3 , b. March 30, 1833.
DORCAS M. Hunter 3 , b. November 17, 183—.
H31.* vii. WILLIAM L. Hunter 3 , b. April 30, 1840; m.
H32. viii. ARTHUR M. Hunter 3 , b. June 26, 1844.
(H7) Elizabeth Hunter-, b. December 26, 1794; m.
Thomas Morrison. Children:
H25.
i.
H26.
ii.
H27.
iii.
H28.
iv.
H29.
v.
H30.
vi.
H33.
HUGH Morrison 3 .
H34.
ii.
ROBERT H. Morrison 3 .
H35.
iii.
THOMAS Morrison 3 .
H36.
iv.
BETSY Morrison 3 .
H37.
v.
JANE Morrison 3 .
H38.
vi.
ANN Morrison 3 .
(H8) Sarah Hunter 2 , b. September 16, 1796, m.
Isaac Jones. Children.
H39.
i.
DANIEL Jones 3 .
H40.
ii.
MEHITABEL Jones
H41.
xii.
ELIJAH Jones 3 .
H4°.
iv.
ELISHA Jones 3 .
H43.
v.
MARGARET Jones 3 .
Other Families 293
H44. vi. SARAH Jones''.
(H9) Margaret Hunter', b. August 18, 1798; m.
Thomas Morrison (her brother-in-law). Children:
H45. i. JACKSON Morrison 1 .
H46. ii. NATHAN Morrison 3 .
H47. iii. MARIELLA Morrison 3 .
H48. iv. SALINA Morrison 3 , d. agd. 20.
(H10) Robert Hunter 2 , b. February 2, 1800-1 ; d. March
30, 1845; m.
Louise Manrose; she d. March 30, 1872. Children:
H49.* i. JARED H. Hunter 3 , b. August 30, 1824.
H50. ii. JESSE W. Hunter 3 , b. May 16, 1826; d. De-
cember 30, 1869.
H51. iii. J. DENNIS Hunter 3 , b. July 16, 1828; d.
August 21, 1847.
H52. iv. SAMUEL B. Hunter 3 , b. Sept. 5, 1830; d. July
6, 1833.
H53.* v. GATES M. Hunter 3 , b. July 25, 1832; m.
Sarah Merritt.
H54. vi. JOSHUA B. Hunter 3 , b. July 19, 1834; d. Oc-
tober 30, 1852.
H55. vii. LORETTA E. Hunter 3 , b. May 17, 1836; d.
March 30, 1837.
H56.* viii. ESTHER L. Hunter 3 , b. Feb. 14, 1838; m.
Charles C. Merritt.
H57. ix. ELIZABETH C. Hunter', b. June 29, 1840.
H58. x. CANDACE Hunter 3 , b. Aug. 7, 1842.
H59. xi. WILSON Hunter 3 , b. Dec. 18, 1844.
(Hll) Matthew Hunter-, youngest son of Robert and
Elizabeth (Park) Hunter, was born on the old home farm
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294 SlGGINS AND
in Limestone Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, and
after his marriage made his home there; he was an indus-
trious man, a good neighbor, and very hospitable ; his home
being known in the neighborhood as "The Hotel." b. July
17, 1802 ; d. March 30, 1845 ; m. April 8, 1827,
Sarah Magill (dau. of Arthur Magill, Sr.) ; b. June 3,
1808; d. Feb. 18, 1855. Children:
H60.* i. ELIZABETH Hunter', b. January 27, 1828.
H61.* ii. JAHU Hunter, b. October 3, 1830; m.
Margaret R. Magee.
H62. iii. ROBERT W. Hunter, b. July 27, 1833: d-
January 2, 1852.
H63. iv. DORCAS M. Hunter, b. Sept. 11, 1835; d.
November 11, 1857.
H64.* v. DARIUS M. Hunter', b. April 3, 1838; m.
Mary Jane Smith.
H65.* vi. VIOLET J. Hunter', b. Jan. 14, 1841; m.
D. B. Everett.
H66.* vii. SARAH Louise Hunter 3 , b. June 21, 1843; m.
A. J. Tipton.
H67.* viii. MARGARET B. Hunter 3 , b. May 1, 1846; m.
L. A. Siggins (769).
H68. ix. MARY Hunter, b. Sept. 10, 1849; m.
Merkle.
H69. x. ANICE O. Hunter 3 , b. March 24, 1852, m.
(H23) Matthew Park Hunter 3 , m.
Pheobe Richardson (No. 248). Children:
H70.
i.
JOHN Park Hunter
H71.
ii.
MARY Jane Hunter
H72.
iii.
EFFIE Hunter 4 .
H73.
iv.
ELLA Hunter 4 .
JAHU HUNTER.
(H61)
Other Families 295
H74. v. ELSIE Hunter 4 , m.
Boutel; has son Harold.
H75. vi. SAMUEL Hunter 4 .
H76. vii. PHEOBE Hunter 4 .
H77. viii. EDWIN Hunter 4 .
H78. ix. PEARL Hunter 4 .
H79. x. VIOLET Hunter 4 , m.
H80.
xi.
ncac, iias sun iv±a
MABLE Hunter 4 .
H81.
xii.
SYLVIA Hunter 4 .
(H24)
Samuel Hunter 1 , b.
Texas
5.
Melissa Pownall. Children:
H82.
i.
LETHAR Lavantia Hunter
H83.
ii.
CYNTHIA May Hunter 4 .
H84.
iii.
INA Carra Hunter 4 .
H85.
iv.
ALEY Louise Hunter 4 .
H86.
v.
THESIE Maud Hunter 4 .
H87.
vi.
EDWIN Park Hunter 4 .
H88.
vii.
EDNA Blanche Hunter 4 .
H89.
viii.
EFFIE Viola Hunter 4 .
H80.
ix.
ALPHA Hunter 4 .
H91.
X.
ELMER Eugene Hunter 4 .
H92.
xi.
WILMA Pearl Hunter 4 .
H93.
xii.
ORA Hunter 4 .
live at Alvin,
H94. xiii. OSA Hunter 4 .
H95. xiv. JOHN Francis Hunter 4 .
296 SlGGINS AND
H96. xv. CLARA Hunter 4 .
(H31) William L. Hunter 3 , b. April 30, 1840; m. De-
cember 2, 1872,
Julia A. Noble. Children:
H97. i. ROSA D. Hunter 4 , b. June 28, 1874.
H98. ii. WILLIAM D. Hunter 4 , b. March 30, 1876.
H99. iii. BLANCHE J. Hunter 4 , b. Dec. 1, 1877.
H100. iv. BENJAMIN D. Hunter 4 , b. Oct. 8, 1872.
(H49) Jared H. Hunter 3 , b. August 30, 1824; m.
. Children :
H100. i. ROBERT L. Hunter 4 , b. February 3, 1854 ; m.
1st, April 27, 1879,
Melvina Goodwill; she d. May 12, 1888; m. 2nd,
April 1, 1895,
Bell August.
H101. ii. WILLIAM Riley Hunter 4 , b. August 20, 1855 ;
m. January 25, 1876,
Florence Boyd.
H102. iii. LEMMEL H. Hunter 4 , b. December 3, 1856;
d. March 17, 1857.
H103.* iv. MARIAN L. Hunter 4 , b. May 12, 1858; m.
H104. v. HUDSON B. Hunter 4 , b. April 27, 1860; m.
1st, March 8, 1885,
Ida Goodwill; she d. May 12, 1886; m. 2nd, Dec.
25, 1888,
Froma Morgan.
H105.* vi. BERTHA Hunter 4 , b. March 22, 1862; m.
H106. vii. FELINDA E. Hunter 4 , b. May 5, 1864.
H107.* viii. SHERMAN W. Hunter 4 , b. April 11, 1866; d.
June 24, 1867.
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H108. ix. MARTHA M. Hunter 4 , b. March 27, 1868; m.
Sept. 10, 1884,
0. M. Tuttle.
H109. x. CORA V. Hunter 4 , b. April 13, 1870 ; d. Oct.
13, 1879.
H110. xi. VIOLA C. Hunter 4 , b. April 7, 1872; d. Oct.
8, 1879.
Alden Morris.
Hill. xii. JOSEPHINE J. Hunter 4 , b. May 21, 1879; m.
12-23-96.
H112. xiii. OSBORNE R. B. Hunter 4 , b. Sept. 11, 1876;
d. Oct. 18, 1879.
H113. xiv. JARED H. Hunter 4 , b. March 13, 1878; d.
Mar. 22, 1878
(H53) Gates M. Hunter 1 , b. July 25, 1832; d. June 29,
1895; m. 1850.
Sarah Merritt. Children:
HI 14. i. ASA M. Hunter 4 , b. June 17, 1856 ; m. May 25,
1880, Permelia S. Cooley.
H115. ii. DELBERT O. Hunter 4 , b. March 20, 1858 ; d.
October 14, 1886; m. Lavine A. Neil.
H116. iii. FRANCIS M. Hunter 4 , b. Oct. 26, 1859; m.
Dec. 25, 1883, Ida O. Jones.
H117. iv. EFFIE M. Hunter 4 , b. Feb. 22, 1861; m. Dec.
26, 1881, Arthur Bangler.
H118. v. ADDIE M. Hunter 4 , b. Nov. 16, 1862; m.
April 12, 1886, William A. Farrin.
H119. vi. LINCOLN U. Hunter 4 , b. Feb. 5, 1865.
H120. vii. ANNIE M. Hunter 4 , b. Sept. 21, 1868; m.' Dec.
24, 1890, Thomas J. Ross.
H121. viii. MELVILLA S. Hunter', b. March 3, 1875.
298 SlGGINS AND
H122. ix. HARRY G. Hunter*, b. July 9, 1861.
(H56) Esther L. Hunter 3 , b. February 14, 1838; d. May
30, 1888; m. July 17, 1856.
Charles C. Merritt. Children:
H123. i. LORETTA M. N. Merritt 4 , b. March 31, 1858;
d. April 17, 1862.
H124. ii. LOVISA Merritt 4 , b. Aug. 4, 1859; d.
m. September 2, 1877, Robert Micabon.
H125. iii. LOVINDA A. Merritt 4 , b. November 13, 1860 ;
m. Apr. 18, 1888, S. S. Harrison.
H126. iv. GRACE E. Merritt 4 , b. August 29, 1872; m.
Dec. 22, 1893, Rev. Guy S. Brown.
H127. v. ESTHER S. Merritt 4 , b. August 8, 1875; d.
Dec. 5, 1883.
(H60). Elizabeth Hunter 3 , b. January 27, 1828; d. No-
vember 3, 1857 ; m. 1st July 10, 1846 :
Philo D. Martin ; m. 2nd :
Peter Barr; m. 3rd:
Syrus DeLong. Children:
H128. i. HATCH Martin 4 .
H129. ii. RILEY Martin 4 .
H130. iii. MARY Martin 4 .
H131.* iv. LENORA Barr 4 .
*Lenora Barr was adopted by her uncle, Jahu
Hunter, she married Rev. George Albrecht, a
missionary to Japan, they had two children,
Leila and Eugene Albrecht.
H132. v. RAYMOND Barr 4 .
H133. vi. MARION Barr 4 .
(H61). Jahu Hunter 3 , of Tidioute, b. October 3, 1830,
LIVINGSTON L. HUNTER.
(H 134)
Other Families 299
in Warren County, Pa.; d. March 15, 1897, in Tidioute; m.
Jan. 1, 1860.
Margaret R. Magee (No. 631), b. May 8, 1836; d. July
22, 1914. Children:
H134.* i. LIVINGSTON LeGrand Hunter', b. January
10, 1861.
H135. ii. LELLA Lillian Hunter 4 , b. September 12,
1872; d. November 6, 1883.
(H134). Livingston LeGrand Hunter 4 , b. January 10,
1861, in Tidioute, Pa.; d. April 20, 1902; m. January 6,
1887, in Tidioute, Pa.
Lillian Acomb (dau. of Dr. James and Sareph (Oliver)
Acomb) ; b. January 6, 1864. Children :
H136. i. JAMES Livingston Hunter"-, b. October 31,
1890.
H137. ii. LELLA May Hunter", b. January 14, 1894 ; m.
June, 1917.
William Floyd Clinger.
H138. iii. DOROTHY Hunter" 1 , b. September 5, 1896.
H139. iv. JAHU Acomb Hunter 5 , b. August 5, 1901.
JAHU HUNTER.
The Hunter family are from Scotch-Irish ancestry—
a race in which the Scotch stability, shrewdness, men-
tal vigor, physical energy and endurance, blended with the
geniality, the warm heartedness, the versality of the Irish
blood has given us a people whose physical, mental and mor-
al qualities have made them leaders and powerful promoters
in every industry and in every profession, and enriched
300 SlGGINS AND
our history with an almost endless roll of distinguished
men.
Robert and Elizabeth (Park) Hunter who were born
in Ireland in 1758 and 1762 respectively, were ancestors
of Jahu Hunter.
About 1808 Robert removed with his family to a farm
upon the east side of the Allegheny River and built his
house, a rude log cabin, about two miles below the mouth
of Tidioute Creek, and this farm was his home until the
end of his days. He was a quiet, industrious man, it is said,
devoting himself closely to the care of his family and the
clearing up and cultivation of his farm. Matthew Hunter,
son of Robert and Elizabeth (Park) Hunter, married Sarah
Magill and they were the parents of ten children of whom
Jahu Hunter was the eldest son and upon him fell a large
share of the work and responsibility of the family. Very
early in life he became a valuable helper in the work of
his father and an important factor in earning for the fam-
ily their daily bread. In the practical affairs of the time
and the region he was an advanced student and in his
seventeenth year he began jobbing and getting out and
banking square timber. Later he did much work in get-
ting out and rafting lumber and running it to Pittsburg
and points below. From these trips he usually returned
on foot across country, sometimes securing passage on
steamboats for part of the way. In this work he acquired
that knowledge of timber lands and the lumber business
that made his judgment in such matters so good and brought
him so much success in lumbering. On January 1, 1860, he
married Margaret R. Magee, daughter of Alexander and
Nancy (Smith) Magee. In 1868 he became a Mason and
advanced in this order to the thirty-second degree, Scot-
tish Rite. The partnership of Mabie and Hunter, consist-
ing of his brother-in-law and himself, was formed in 1868
and conducted a large business in general mechandising
and lumber until 1882. In 1871 he joined with others in
organizing the Tidioute Savings Bank, of which he grad-
ually became the chief owner, and of which he was Presi-
Other Families 301
dent since 1883. In 1873 he formed a partnership with H.
H. Cummings in the oil business. They were also asso-
ciated in various other enterprises, in the Tidioute Savings
Bank, in wheat lands in North Dakota, as members of the
Missouri Lumber and Mining Company, in pine lands and
lumbering in Missouri. The exhaustion of the oil fields
about Tidioute left the borough stagnant, and to bring em-
ployment to the idle and prosperity to the community he
aided in establishing the Tidioute Chair Co. and became its
President and so continued until his death. Jahu Hunter
was a man of unusual ability and strong individuality. Sim-
ple in his tastes, unpretentious and modest in manner and
feeling, helpful to those in distress, seeking always to in-
crease the sum of human happiness and morality and to
promote the general well being of his associates. He died
March 15, 1897, and is buried in Tidioute.
Livingston Legrand Hunter, only son of Jahu and Mar-
garet R. Hunter, was born in Tidioute, Pa., Jan. 10th, 1861.
He attended the home schools and later, the Pennsylvania
Military Academy at West Chester, and Oberlin College,
graduating from the latter institution in 1882. His busi-
ness education was obtained from his association with his
father and he proved an efficient teacher, as his son was an
apt pupil. Gradually the large business interests of the
father were delegated to the son and when the elder Mr.
Hunter died in 1897, his son easily assumed the entire
responsibility and discharged with great credit the many
duties pertaining to a large and growing business, carry-
ing out with conscientious fidelity every idea and plan both
in business and charitable enterprises originated by his
father. After his death his wife and mother followed
the same plan in trying to fulfill the wishes of the elder
Mr. Hunter. Thus we see the generous impulses of one
good man continuing to bear fruit for many years.
The fine high school building erected by Mrs. Jahu Hunter
and Mrs. L. L. Hunter to the memory of their loved ones is
most typical of the men it was built to honor.
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Livingston Hunter was married January 6, 1887, to
Lillian Acomb, daughter of Dr. James L. Acomb of Tidioute.
He met a most tragic death on April 20, 1902, when the
steamer "Pittsburg" was destroyed by fire near Cairo, on
the Mississippi River.
Many of Mr. Hunter's qualities were inherited from his
capable mother who was a woman of unusual strength of
character and sterling worth. She will long be remembered
and honored. In her death the remaining members of her
family lost a wise counsellor and friend.
(H64). Darius M. Hunter 1 , b. April 3, 1838; d. May
6, 1864 ; m. July 4, 1861.
Mary Jane Smith (dau. of James and Margaret (Magee)
Smith). Children:
H140. i. CAROLINE M. Hunter 4 , m.
David Bradford.
(H65) . Violet J. Hunter \ b. January 14, 1841 ; m. Octo-
ber 2, 1862.
D. B. Everett. Children:
H141. i. ELMAY Everett 4 , b. February 8, 1864; m.
April 12, 18 — , Everette Johnson.
Had a daughter, Gwendolyn Everett, b. April
2, 1896.
(H66). Sarah Louise Hunter 3 b. June 21, 1843; d. Jan.
16, 1917. m. September, 1865.
Andrew Jackson Tipton. Children :
ESTELLA Tipton 4 , m. Wesley Morrison.
ANNIS Tipton 4 , m. George Straus.
HARRY H. Tipton 4 , m. Harriet Knight.
LELLAND Tipton 4 .
H142.
H143.
H144. in.
H145. iv.
H146. v. SUSAN Tipton 4 , m. Barton Roffee.
Other Families 303
H147. vi. FRANK Tipton 4 , m. Isabelle Holden.
H148. vii. GUY Tipton 4 .
(H103. Marian L. Hunter 4 , b. May 12, 1858; m. Decem-
ber 26, 1878.
E. J. Goodwill. Children:
H149. i. ROY Ellwyn Goodwill"', b. May 1, 1880.
H150. ii. AARON Bradshaw Goodwill 5 , b. Jan. 12, 1882
H151. iii. BESSIE Josephine Goodwill 5 , b. Jan. 24,
1884.
JESSIE Belle Goodwill', b. Dec. 23, 1885.
BURTON Bunker Goodwill', b. July 25, 1887.
BERTHA Viola Goodwill 5 , b. April 7, 1889.
MAUDE Evaline Goodwill \ b. Mch. 28, 1892.
JOHN Russell Lowel Goodwill ', b. August 4,
1894.
(H105). Bertha C. Hunter 4 , b. March 22, 1865; m. Sep-
tember 14, 1879.
Barney McGuire. Children:
OSBORNE R. McGuire 3 , b. October 26, 1880.
CARROLL B. McGuire 5 , b. August 4, 1882.
EDNA L. McGuire 5 , b. March 11, 1885.
LUKE P. McGuire 5 , b, October 31, 1887.
BASIL H. McGuire 5 , b. July 4, 1889.
Arthur Magill, Sr., a Revolutionary soldier; b. 1764;
d. 1847, and is buried at Tidioute, Pa. ; m. 1797.
Elizabeth Arters, she died 1840. Children:
i. RICHARD MagilP.
ii. WILLIAM MagilP.
H152.
iv.
H153.
v.
H154.
vi.
H155.
vii.
H156.
viii.
H157.
i.
H158.
ii.
H159.
iii.
H160.
iv.
H161.
v.
304 SlGGINS AND
iii. MAHITABEL Magill 2 .
iv. ELIZA Magill 2 .
v. *DORCAS MagilP, m. William Hunter (No. H6).
vi. *SARAH Magill 2 , b. June 3, 1808 ; d. Mar. 30, 1845 ;
m. April 8, 1827;
Matthew Hunter, (No. Hll).
vii. CHARLES Magill 2 .
viii. MARY Magill 2 .
ix. JAMES Magill 2 .
x. ARTHUR Jr. Magill 2 , m.
Elizabeth , and had a son :
ARTHUR Magill, Jr. \
Revolutionary record of Arthur Magill, Sr., b. 1764; d.
1847. Private in Capt. John Jordon's Company.
2nd. Battalion Cumberland, Pa., Militia, d. at Tidoute,
Pa.
Pa. Archives Vol. VI, 5th Series.
No. 77310, D. A. R. Lineage Book.
Arthur Magil, Jr., and his son Arthur, III, both enlisted in
the Civil War at Carlisle, Pa.
(771). DAVID HENRY SlGGINS 5 , of Tidioute, Penn-
sylvania; owned and operated a livery stable in Warren,
Pa., for a number of years. For the last fifteen years
(1916). he has been identified with promoting street rail-
ways in Warren and vicinity; built and operated the War-
ren-Jamestown line — also several short lines in Eastern
Kansas, with headquarters at Coffeyville and Winfield. He
organized these companies and has served as their Presi-
dent since their organization. He is a very successful busi-
ness man, has always been interested in civic matters. His
family are all members of the Presbyterian Church. His
Other Families 305
son, Hugh A., and son-in-law, Samuel Q. Smith, are as-
sociated with him in the railroad business and hold re-
sponsible positions. He was born in Tidioute December 8,
1846 ; married September 2, 1875 :
Julia Marietta Guignon, b. in Sugar Grove, Pa., May 3,
1852; dau. of Joseph and Julia Ann (Runion) Guignon,
(Julia Ann Runion was a dau. of Benjamin and Rebecca
(Smith) Runion). Their children were :
903. i. JULIA Mabel Siggins* 5 , b. August 4, 1876.
904. ii. HUGH Archibald Siggins 6 , b. in Warren, Pa.,
August 24, 1877 ; m. June 2, 1902.
Grace Legard Todd, b. September 14, 1878, dau. of
William and Ann (Dwight) Todd.
Their children are:
905. i. MARTHA Todd Siggins 7 , b. May 25, 1904.
906. ii. DAVID Henry Siggins 7 , b. June 28, 1910.
907. iii. TODD Siggins 7 , b. May 1, 1912.
908. iii. MAUD Isabel Siggins , b. in Warren, Pa., July
18, 1882 ; m. in Warren, Ja., January 18, 1901.
Samuel Q. Smith, b. May 12, 1876, son of Frank
and Martha (Quinn) Smith.
Their children are :
909. i. CATHERINE Martha Smith 7 , b. Feb. 3,
1903.
910. ii. JANE Veronica Smith 7 , b. January 12,
1905.
911. iii. SAMUEL Quinn Smith, Jr. 7 , b. November
29, 1911.
(772). MARGARET AD ALINE SIGGINS 5 , b. Novem-
ber 17, 1849 ; m.
John F. Rounce. Their children were:
306 SlGGINS AND
912. i. NELLIE Kate Rounce 6 , b. May 14, 1875 ; m.
William McWilliams.
Their children are:
913. i. KENNETH McWilliams 7 , b. December 28,
1899.
914. ii. MARGARET Sue McWilliams 7 , b. Jan-
uary 20, 1902.
915. ii. CHARLES E. Rounce 6 , b. March 1, 1882; d.
May 28, 1882.
(773). ELIZA DELPHINE SlGGINS"', b. February 17,
1851; m.
William D. Hatch. Their children were:
916. i. MARY D. Hatch 6 , b. July 17, 1871; m.
William Alcorn, of Pleasantville, Pa.
917. ii. BYRON K. Hatch 6 , b. July 3, 1873.
918. iii. GERTRUDE E. Hatch 6 , b. Aug. 9, 1875; d.
Feb. 18, 1901.
919. iv. JOHN H. Hatch 6 , b. February 8, 1878 ; m.
Jean Humphrey, of Warren, Pa.
920. v. MARGARET N. Hatch 6 , b. March 22, 1880 ; d.
June 10, 1901 ;m.
Westley J. Porter. They had one daughter:
921. Delphina Porter 7 .
922. vi. ROY S. Hatch 6 , b. October 28, 1884.
923. vii. LENORA E. Hatch 6 , b. September 4, 1888.
924. viii. GRACE Irene Hatch 6 , b. March 14, 1893.
(774) BENJAMIN VEROW SlGGINS', b. March 5,
1853 ; m. Ella J. Owens, daughter of Orange Owens. Their
children were:
926.
Q97
928.
ii.
929.
iii
930.
931.
iv.
Other Families 307
925. i. VELMA Jane Siggins 6 , b. August 1, 1874, m.
Edward Shope. They had two children :
VIRGINIA V. Shope 7 , b. September 1, 1897.
GARRIT S. Shope 7 , b. March 15, 1900.
OWEN Levant Siggins 6 , b. September 15, 1877.
ETHEL Maria Siggins 6 , b. May 1, 1880; m.
Joseph Gibson. They have one son:
LEROY S. Gibson 7 , b. July 12, 1903.
GEORGE Augustus Siggins 6 , b. January 21,
1885; m. May Pillsbury, of Warren, Pa.
932. v. ALIDA F. Siggins , b. June 11, 1887.
(775) MARY EMALINE SIGGINS 5 , b. April 22, 1855 ;
m. 1st Millard F. Jaquins; he died December 20, 1878.
Their children were:
933. i. STUART Kinnear Jaquins 6 , b. Oct. 4, 1876 ; m.
Violet M. Dickey, of Caintown, Ont.
Their children were:
934. i. EMALINE Jaquins 7 , b. March 28, 1900.
935. ii. AUTUMN Jaquins 7 , b.
936. iii. Twins, a boy and a girl 7 .
937. iv. The boy died 7 .
938. ii. CATHERINE M. Jaquins 6 , b. Jan. 2, 1878; m.
Guy Delmont Woodbury, of Pittsfield, Pa.
(775) MARY EMALINE (SIGGINS) Jaquins'; m. 2nd.
Charles A. Lincoln, of Panama, N. Y.
Their Children were:
939. iii. RALPH A. Lincoln 6 , b. December 28, 1884.
308 SlGGINS AND
940. iv. CHARLES Burdette Lincoln*, b. Aug. 25, 1889.
(776) CHARLES ALMA SlGGINS 5 , b. Aug. 27, 1857;
m. Anna Jones, a daughter of John Jones. Their children
were:
941. i. MYRTLE Ledoma Siggins 6 , b. March 8, 1882 ;
d. Feb. 15, 1906.
942. ii. EDITH Siggins , b. June 29, 1889; d. February
28, 1890.
IVA Bell Siggins 6 , b. April 27, 1892.
AVIS Genevive Siggins 6 , b. October 22, 1893.
MYRNA Viola Siggins 6 , b. January 16, 1898.
(777) ANNICE ISABELLA SIGGINS 5 , b. June 25,
1860; m. Worth Jaquins. Their children were:
946. i. LOIS I. Jaquins 6 , b. May 31, 1885 ; m.
Charles L. Gordon, son of James Wesley Gordon.
947. ii. ADDA B. Jaquins 6 , b. September 16, 1888 ; m.
June 7, 1917.
Dr. Charles W. Dodge, son of Charles E. Dodge.
948. iii. GERALDINE E. Jaquins 6 , b. July 15, 1894.
943.
iii.
944.
iv.
945.
v.
GENERAL WILLIAM IRVINE.
William Irvine was born at Fermanagh, Ireland, No-
vember 3, 1741. Educated at the University of Dublin, he
studied medicine, and was sometime surgeon in the Eng-
lish Navy. After the peace of 1763, he removed to Penn-
sylvania and settled at Carlisle. He was a member from
Cumberland county of the Convention which met at Phila-
delphia on the 15th of July, 1774, and recommended a gen-
Other Families 309
eral Congress. He was a representative in the succeed-
ing conferences of the Province. In 1776 he raised and
commanded the Sixth Penn'a regiment, and was captured
at Trois Rivieres, Canada. On the 3d of August was re-
leased on parole; exchanged May 6, 1778. The same year
he was appointed Colonel of the Second Penna. regiment,
and the 12th of May, 1779, a brigadier general. He served
under Wayne during that and the following year. In the
autumn of 1781 he was stationed at Fort Pitt, intrusted
with the defense of the northwestern frontier. In 1784 he
served as a member of the council of censors. In 1785 he
was appointed by the governor of Penn'a an agent to ex-
amine the public lands of the state, and suggested the pur-
chase of the "Triangle,," thus giving Penn'a an outlet upon
Lake Erie. He was member of the old Congress of 1786-8.
and of the Constitutional Convention of 1790. In 1794
Gov. Mifflin appointed him, with chief Justice McKean, a
commissioner to go to the western counties. He served
as member of Congress from 1793 to 1795. He was presi-
dent of the Penn'a Society of the Cincinnati. He died at
Philadelphia on 29th of July, 1804.
(Pa. Ar. 2d S. Vol. IV. p. 142.)
The ancestors of General William Irvine (1741-1804),
came from Scotland, and settled at a little village called
Irvinestown, also called Loutherstown, on the banks Lough
Eine, a few miles from Enniskillen, county Fermanagh,
Ireland, here he was born.
He emigrated to America in 1763, and settled at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, where he practiced his profession of physi-
cian and surgeon with success untill 1774, when he was
appointed one of the representatives to the provincial con-
vention which met in Philadelphia in that year, he later
joined the Revolutionary army and served as mentioned
above ; he was also commander-in-chief of the Pennsylvania
troops during the "whisky insurrection."
His brothers, Captain Andrew Irvine, and Dr. Matthew
Irvine, were also distinguished soldiers in the Revolution;
from one of these brothers is descended the Irvine and An-
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310 SlGGINS AND
drews families of Bradford Pennsylvania.
General William Irvine, 1741-1804 ; b. November 3, 1741,
near Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland ; d. July 29, 1804,
in Philadalphia, Pennsylvania ; m. 1763, at Middlesex,, Cum-
berland County, Pa.
Ann Callander, dau. of Robert Callander, who command-
ed a company of Pennsylvania militia at Braddock's de-
feat. Children :
i. CALLANDER Irvine 2 , b. 1774, in Carlisle ; d. 1840,
at Erie, Pa. ; was president of the Hibernia So-
ciety of Pennsylvania, and of the State Society
of Cincinnati. He was the father of:
Dr. William A. Irvine, b. September 28, 1803, at
Erie, Pa. ; m. Duncan.
ii. WILLIAM Well Irvine 2 , m. Julia Galbraith, they
were the parents of:
William Callander Irvine, who m. Anna Longsreath.
iii. REBECCA Armstrong Irvine 2 , m. in 1811, Peter
Fayssoux; they were the parents of:
Callander Irvine Fayssoux and
Ann Callander Fayssoux.
iv. MARY B. Irvine 2 , m. Dr. Charles D. Lewis, son of
William and Ann (Montgomery) Lewis.
v. ELIZABETH Irvine 2 , m. Dr. Reynolds, of Phila-
delphia, a United Irishman of "98."
The town of Irvine, Warren County, Pennsylvania, was
named in honor of General William Irvine.
Other Families 311
DESCENDANTS OF GENERAL WILLIAM IRVINE,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Mrs. Leonora Fayssoux Hadden, wife of Robert G. Had-
den.
Descendant of Gen. William Irvine, of Pennsylvania;
Dr. Peter Fayssoux, of South Carolina.
Daughter of Callander Irvine Fayssoux and Sarah A.
McLellan, his wife (m. 1860).
Granddaughter of Capt. Peter Fayssoux, U. S. N., and
Rebecca Armstrong Irvine, his wife (m. 1811).
Great-granddaughter of William Irvine and Ann Cal-
ender, his wife ; Peter Fayssoux and Anne Smith, his wife
(m. 1777).
William Irvine (1741-1804) commanded a regiment when
taken prisoner at the battle of Three Rivers, 1776, and
was not exchanged for nearly two years. He was promoted
brigadier general, 1779, and was selected as one of the
court martial to try Andre. He was in command of the
Western Department until the close of the war, and was
president of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania. He was born
in Ireland and died at Philadelphia.
Peter Fayssoux, who was born in France, came when
very young to Charleston. He was active throughout the
war and served as surgeon general of the state. He endured
captivity with patience and exile with resignation." He
was an original member of the Cincinnati and is buried in
the Scotch Church Yard at Charleston, where, in 1795, he-
died.
(D. A. R. Lineage Book, Vol. XVI. p. 219.)
312 SlGGINS AND
Mrs. Beckie Pajan Davis, b. in South Carolina; wife of
James Quentin Davis; daughter of James Pajan and Ann
Callander Rayssoux, his wife ; granddaughter of Peter Fays-
soux and Rebecca Armstrong Irvine, his wife; gr-grand-
daughter of Gen. William Irvine and Ann Callander, his
wife.
(Same service as above, D. A. R. Lineage Book, IV., p.
146.)
Mrs. Hetty Irvine Stiles, wife of Albert Wilson Stiles;
daughter of William Callander Irvine and Anna Longs-
reath, his wife ; granddaughter of William Well Irvine and
Julia Galbraith, his wife; gr-granddaughter of Gen. Wil-
liam Irvine and Ann Callander, his wife.
(Same service as above, D. A. R. Lineage Book, Vol. II.,
p. 96.)
General Warren Chapter, Daughters of the American
revolution, of Warren, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Silas Elsworth
Walker, regent, has developed and beautified 800 feet of
Crescent Park, fronting on the Allegheny River at Warren.
This park was given to Warren by the gr-granddaughters
of Gen. William Irvine (Mrs. Newbold and Mrs. Biddle),
daughters of Dr. Wm. A. Irvine.
Gen. Irvine was a soldier of the Revolution and a trusted
friend of Washington.
The especial feature of historic interest was the erec-
tion of a granite bowlder and tablet to the early pioneers
of Warren prior to the year 1820.
The unveiling exercises were held October 4, 1912; the
plat of ground named "Pioneer Circle."
Inscription of the granite bowlder bronze tablet:
"In honor of general William Irvine, born near
Enniskillen, Ireland, 1740, died in Philadelphia,
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313
July, 1804 — Who served with distinction in the
war of the Revolution, who surveyed and laid out
the town of Warren in the year 1795 and whose
descendants presented Crescent Park to the town
of Warren."
Also a bowlder and bronze tablet with the names of
thirty-eight pioneers (many of them of Revolutionary an-
cestry) ; on the reverse side of this bowlder was placed
a chapter tablet, with insignia and watchword, and names
of the committee and regent having the work in charge.
RECORDS OF PIONEERS AND SOLDIERS OF
WARREN COUNTY.
THIRTY-EIGHT PIONEERS WHO SETTLED IN
WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA, PRIOR TO 1820.
Archibald Tanner,
Lansing Wetmore,
Mark. C. Dalrymple,
Col. Asa Scott,
James Benson,
Henry Dunn,
Asa Winter,
Col. Joseph Hackney,
Isaac Connely,
Andrew Coburn,
Abraham Hazeltine
George W. Fenton,
Abraham Hazeltine,
Stephen Littlefield,
Daniel McQuay,
Robert Russell,
Abraham Ditmars,
Zachariah Eddy,
First Treasurer.
First Prothonotary.
First Sheriff.
First Coroner.
1
•{First Commissioners.
J
J First Associate Judges.
First Postmaster.
First Attorney.
First Schoolmaster.
First Physician.
Robert Miles,
Lathrop Parmalee,
Corning Dalrymple,
James Morrison,
Truman Kidder,
314 SlGGINS AND
Daniel Jackson, James Follett,
Asa Geer. Robert Falconer,
Stephen Olney, John Gilson,
Nathaniel Kidder, Col. John King.
Guy C. Irvine, Josiah Hall,
Robert Arthur, Martin Reese,
Charles Taylor, Joseph Mead,
Daniel Brown,
"They builded better than they knew."
NAMES OF MEN BURIED IN WARREN COUNTY, PA.,
Who Served in the American Revolution 1776-1783.
John Andrews, Pensioner, Conn.; m. Sept. 4, 1816, to
Sarah Brown, Glastonbury, Conn.
Robert Andrews, Sr., served in Penn. ; m. Anna Ross.
Robert Arthur, 1st Lieut., Northumberland Co., Pa.
James Arthur, 2d Penna. Battalion.
Richard Arters, Cumberland Co. Militia.
John Akeley, Wifflin County, Pa.
Symonds Eps Barker, served in Mass.
Jacob Beetem, 9th Penna. Continental Line, Pensioner.
*Simon Bevier, Ulster Co. N. G. ; m. Sept. 1793, at War-
sink, N. Y., Elizabeth Cantine.
Barrett David, Pensioner 1850.
Capt. Joseph Bishop, Chester Co., Pa.
Samuel Campbell, Fifer when 13 years old.
Josiah Chandler, Mariner, Conn., Pensioner.
Noah Chappell, Pensioner, from Conn.; m. Farzey.
Other Families 315
*Samuel Clark, Pensioner, served Morristown, N. J.;
m. Catherine Reese, Lycoming Co., Pa.
Stephen Chapman, Corporal, Continental Line, Pa.
David Dalrymple, Pensioner, served Mass.
Elijah Davis, served in New Jersey and Penna.
James Elliott, served Chester Co., Pa.
Andrew Evers, Pensioner, from Montgomery Co., Pa.;
a great Indian fighter.
Rufus Fitch. His wife kept the 1st school in Freehold
Twp., Warren Co., Pa.
Asa Geer, Pensioner, Connecticut Line.
John Geer, Lancaster Co., Pa. Militia.
* James Green, Rhode Island Line, Pensioner.
Benjamin Huff, Pensioner, served New Jersey and Pa.
Major James Herriott, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Hackney, served from New York; m. Margaret
McGrady.
Isaiah Jones, Continental Line, Pennsylvania.
Solomon Jordon, Pensioner, served from Massachusetts.
Harmones Lott.
John Long, Sr., Cumberland Co., Pa. Militia.
George Long, Pensioner, Pennsylvania; m. Aug., 1792,
Lycoming Co., Pa.
Darius Mead, Northumberland Co., Pa.
David Mead, Ensign and Captain, Northumberland Co.,
Pa.
Joseph Mead, Northumberland Co., Pa., Militia.
316 SlGGINS AND
Jesse Merrill, Pensioner, Continental Line, Mass.; wife
Rhoda.
Jeremiah Morrison, Lancaster Co., Pa., Militia.
James Morrison, Pensioner, Bucks Co., Pa.
James Magee, Pensioner, Delaware and Virginia.
James Marshall, Northumberland Co., Pa.
Robert Miles, Pennsylvania Rangers; m. Catherine Watt.
Solomon Miles, Jr., Mass.
Hugh McGuire, Chester Co., Pa., Militia; also served in
War 1812.
:!: John McDaniel Pensioner, Dutchess Co., N. Y. ; m. Jan.
1, 1794, Bathsheba Cramphin.
Abijah Newman, New York.
Gideon Northrop, Ensign, Pensioner, Conn.
Capt. Stephen Olney, Rhode Island; m. Martha Aldrich.
John Owen, Pensioner, Conn.; m. Aug. 1787, Lydia Gil-
son, at Saulisbury, Conn.
Thomas Page, Artificier, Continental Line, Pa.
*Jonathan Phelps, Pensioner, Corporal and Mariner; m.
Aug. 14, 1784, Charity Beckwith.
Jesse Putnam, Pensioner, New Hampshire.
Esquire Phillips, Pensioner, Conn.; also 1812.
John Portman, Pensioner, Pennsylvania Line; m. May
1784, Catherine Gudbling.
John Reese, Berks Co., Pa., Militia.
Zacheus Raymond, Pensioner, Conn. Militia; m. Sarah
Sears ; also served in War 1812.
John Russell, Cumberland Co., Pa., Militia.
*Daniel Shirley, Pensioner, New Hampshire.
Other Families 317
Nathan St. John, Pensioner.
John Watt, Lancaster Co., Pa., Militia.
William Work, Cumberland Co., Pa., Militia.
Mathew Young, Continental Line, Pa.
Jonathan Bullock, Pennsylvania, Sugar Grove.
Joseph Akley, Pennsylvania, Russell.
Asa Gregory, Sugar Grove.
Moses Farnsworth, Sugar Grove.
John Nichols, Sugar Grove.
The ones marked with a * were located and their pen-
sion papers secured after the first tablet was up.
NAMES OF MEN BURIED IN WARREN COUNTY, PA„
Who Served in the War of 1812-14.
B. Acks, Warren.
Joseph Ackley, of Pine Grove.
Capt. Archibald Alexander, born New York., buried at
Youngsville.
Thomas Allen, buried at Pine Grove.
Quarter Master Wm. Arthur, Broken Straw.
Ira Badger, Russell, Cemetery.
Jare Benedict, Enterprise.
Cyrenus Blodgett, Sugar Grove.
Harvey Blodgett, Sugar Grove.
Thomas Bracken, Columbus.
Capt. James Bonner, Garland.
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David Brown, Sugar Grove.
John Brown, Youngsville.
Wm. Bullock, Sugar Grove.
Oliver Carpenter, Enterprise.
Henry Catlin, Sugar Grove.
Stephen Chapman, Bear Lake.
Andrew Chappell, Lander
John Chandler.
Reuben Chase, Russell.
Campbell Conant, Indian Hollow.
Amos Connell, Bear Lake.
Ensign Rufus Corey, Sheffield.
Nathaniel Covel, Tidioute.
Emanuel Crull, Tidioute.
Isaac Davis, Youngsville.
Eli Dibble, Enterprise.
Corporal Wm. Downing, Sheffield.
Sergt. Zachariah Eddy, Warren.
Abraham Emerson, Spring Valley.
Capt. Peter Garcelon, Spring Creek.
John Geer, Glade Twp.
Capt. Jacob Goodwill, Conewango Twp.
Jacob Goodwin, Sr., Conewango Twp.
Daniel Gould, Sugar Grove.
James Gray, Sugar Grove.
Moris Halftown, Cornplanter Reservation.
Other Families 319
Sam Hall, Sugar Grove.
John Hamilton, Sugar Grove.
Lieut. Richard Henderson, Enterprise.
John Herredan, Tidioute.
Adjt. Daniel Horn.
Lieut. John Howard, Columbus.
Samuel Howe, Akeley.
Chester Hull, Youngsville.
Andrew Irvine, Warren.
John Jobes, drummer.
Capt. John King, Warren.
Orrin Kingsley.
Benjamin Kelley, Russell.
Peter Knup, Warren.
Joseph Langdon, Sugar Grove.
Isaac Lopez, near Watts Flats.
Hulet Lott, Lottsville.
Major James McAffee, Warren.
Corporal Thomas McGuire, Tidioute.
Hugh McGuire, Tidioute.
John Mahan, Lander.
Samuel Magee, near Excelsior.
Corporal Thomas Martin, Russell.
Darius Mead, Youngsville.
John Mead, Youngsville.
Wm. Mead, Youngsville.
Thomas Merritt, Deerfield Twp.
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Corporal Robert Miles, Warren.
James Miller, Chandler's Valley.
Thomas Morrison, Tidioute.
Samuel Morton, Spring Creek.
J. C. Newman, Marsh's Corners.
Henry O'Bail, (son of Cornplanter) , Cornplanter Reser-
vation.
Stephen Olney, Warren.
Noah Patchen, Spring Creek.
Seland Pearham, near Tidioute.
Eli Peck, Russell.
Lemuel Pierce, Sugar Grove.
Samuel Russell, Watson Twp.
Wm. Seabury, Sugar Grove.
Alexander Siggins, Youngsville.
George Siggins, Youngsville.
Wm. Siggins, Youngsville.
Nathaniel Sill, near Warren.
Elisha Sterling, Limestown Twp.
Wm. Stewart (Stuart), Farmington Twp.
Wm. Sturdevant, Yankeebush.
Stephen Taylor, Sheffield.
Caleb Thompson, Pine Grove.
Robert Weld, Sugar Grove.
Horace Wetmore, Skely.
Paul Whitcomb, Cornplanter.
Joel Willson, Russell.
Other Families 321
Nehemiah York, Chandler's Valley.
Jesse Young, Sheffield.
George Brown, Warren.
Isaac Culbertson, Cobham Park.
FROM RECORDS OF ROBERT RUSSELL, 1st SETTLER
OF RUSSELL.
Esquire Phillips.
Gerald Peck, of Russell.
James Bats, Lottsville.
Amos Connell, Bear Lake.
Abe Eastman, Lottsville.
Ira Hamilton, Bear Lake.
James Marshall, Wrightsville.
Timothy Wakely, Lottsville.
Stephen Williams, Lottsville.
Samuel Ballard, Lander.
Rufus Evers, Lander.
Henry Mileston, near Sugar Grove.
John Alger, Sugar Grove.
Artemus Binel, Sugar Grove.
Judah P. Gates, Sugar Grove.
Stephen Pagges, Sugar Grove.
John B. Pratt, Sugar Grove.
George Stoolfire, Sugar Grove.
John Teal, Sugar Grove.
322 SlGGINS AND
WAR RECORDS OF DESCENDANTS OF JOHN AND
SARAH (HOOD) SlGGINS.
Twice within the period of this history did our country
call for soldiers. The first time was in the war of 1812,
when men were needed to reinforce Commodore Perry, at
Erie, in 1813. There were then the four sons of John Sig-
gins to respond. They were William Siggins, who was
first Sergeant, George, John, and Alexander. They
marched to Erie but were not called upon for active service.
In the late war there was a good representation of the
family, notwithstanding their deserts as brave soldiers to
a full account of their heroism, it is only possible to give a
brief mention of each one, and it is hoped that none are
here omitted. Of the grand-sons of George Siggins, there
were Nathaniel Simpson Siggins, James Patterson Sig-
gins, who was wounded, Isaac Wilson Siggins, William
Young Siggins, and William Parker Siggins, a soldier hon-
ored for his dauntless courage. Sarah Connelly's grand-
sons, Isaac and Wilber McGee also served in the war.
Judge Siggins had two sons, Nathaniel and Irvine, and two
grand-sons Irvine and Walter Mead. Alexander Siggins'
son John and his grand-son Vincent Trask also. Of those
who married into the family are Captain Ferry, and Cap-
tain Peter Grace, of Jamestown, Colonel W. C. Howe of
Montpelier, Ind., Clinton Smith, John Gilfillan and Cyrus
Richardson.
But there are other names which though no more often
on the tongues of men, are yet above all deserving of ten-
der memory: They are August Trask, killed at White
Mountain; Isaac Richardson, killed in the battle of the
wilderness; George Siggins, died in the hospital of wounds
received at Dallas, Georgia; Captain Benjamin Smith,
killed at Hatches Run; Jefferson McGee, and Porter Sig-
gins, killed at Atlanta, Georgia, the bible in his pocket not
Other Families 323
being sufficient to stop the fatal bullet on its way to that
young heart. At present the descendants of John Sig-
gins are scattered from Canada to Mexico, from the At-
lantic to the Pacific, while Ireland seems well supplied with
those of other branches of the family.
REUNION OF VETERANS OF THE WAR OF 1812.
"On the 12th of June 1869, a number of the surviving
soldiers of the War of 1812-15 met in Warren, Pennsyl-
vania.
Hon. William Siggins, was chosen president of the meet-
ing and Robert Miles secretary.
They passed resolutions regarding the granting of pen-
sions to soldiers of the last war with England, and were
hospitably entertained by L. L. Lowrey, Esq., at the Carver
House wtih a dinner sumptuous in its appointments.
The veterans present were as follows:
Zachariah Eddy, of Warren, aged ninety years ; Robert
Miles, of Warren, aged seventy-six years; Stephen Olney,
of Warren, aged seventy-eight years; John Geer, of Glade
Township, aged seventy-eight years; Emanuel Crull, of
Tidioute, aged eighty years; Caleb Thompson, of Pine
Grove Township, aged seventy-seven; John Brown, of
Brokenstraw Township, aged seventy-three years; William
Siggins, of Youngsville, aged eighty years; Isaac Lopus,
of Pittsfield, aged seventy-seven years; Elisha Sterling, of
Limestone, aged eighty-one years. — Ira Badger, of Pine
Grove, aged seventy-four years; and Joseph Ackley, of
Pine Grove, aged seventy-nine years; were also veterans
of the same war but were unable to attend."
History of Warren County, Pa., p — 137.
324 SlGGINS AND
When men were needed to reinforce Commodore Perry,
at Erie, in 1813, the four sons of John Siggins responded;
they were:
WILLIAM Siggins 3 , who was first sergeant.
GEORGE Siggins 4 .
JOHN Siggins 7 .
ALEXANDER Siggins 8 .
They marched to Erie, but were not called upon for ac-
tive service.
LETTER FROM PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY,
DIVISION OF PUBLIC RECORDS.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 17, 1912.
To whom it may concern:
I hereby certify that one GEORGE SIGGINS appears on
a Muster Roll of Captain Hugh Wilson's Company, Sec-
ond Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia. John Andrews, Major.
See p. 124, Volume Ten, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth
Series.
(Signed) LUTHER R. KELKER.
Custodian of the Public Records.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 17, 1912.
John Siggins, Esqr.,
Tidioute, Pa.,
Dear Sir: —
In reply to yours of the 16th inst., you have herewith
Certificate of GEORGE SIGGINS said Certificate embodies
all we have concerning him.
Your cash $1.00 received thank you.
The names of John, Alexander and William Siggins and
Other Families 325
William Hunter appear on the Muster rolls of the War of
1812-14.
Very truly yours
(Signed) LUTHER R. KELKER.
Custodian of the Public Records.
CIVIL WAR RECORD.
The 83d regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers contained
more members of the Siggins family and its connections
than any other military organization on record. You need
not be told that the 83d was one of the fighting regiments
of the war.
It participated in 20 battles and was present at, but not
actively engaged in 14 more, a total of 34. It encountered
more fighting and lost more in battle than any other Penn-
sylvania regiment, and in fact more than any other in the
Union army. The number of killed and wounded was 971,
more than one-half its total enrollment. None of its losses
was caused by blunders nor did any of them occur in dis-
astrous routs. Its dead always laid with their faces to
the enemy. It had the honor, at Gettysburg, in participat-
ing in the maneuvers of its brigade, Vincent, one of its
colonels, in seiging Little Round Top at a critical moment
helped materially to save the honors of the day. At
Spottsylvania its casualties amounted to 21, killed, 119
wounded, and 24 missing, a total of 164. General McClel-
lan once publicly announced the 83d, "one of the very best
regiments of the army". In this organization seven mem-
bers of the Siggins family and its immediate connections
were honored members".
SIGGINS.
IN THE CIVIL WAR.
(759). JOHN HATTEN SIGGINS, son of Alexander,
was enrolled as corporal of Company K, Twelfth Penn-
sylvania Cavalry, on February 5, 1862. He fought in all
—22
326 SlGGINS AND
the campaigns of General Milroy in West Virginia and
was also with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. He
was mustered out on July 28, 1865, by reason of the close
of the war. He died March 4, 1896, at Young House, Pa.
(270). NATHANIEL SlGGINS, son of Judge William
Siggins, was enrolled as sergeant in Company K. 12th
Pennsylvania Cavalry, March 7, 1862. He fought on
Manassas plains, at Leesburg, was with Milroy in West
Virginia and Winchester, with Sheridan at Fisher's Hill
and Cedar Creek and with the gallant Tolbert in the Shen-
andoah Valley. He was mustered out April 21, 1865 on
account of the close of the war. He was a prisoner for a
number of months in Libby prison and Belle Isle during
his three years and three months service.
(274). DAVID PORTER SIGGINS, a brother of Nat,
was enrolled November 22, 1861 a private in Company D,
111th Pennsylvania volunteers, and fought at Cedar
Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wahat-
chie, Lookout Mountain, Cassville, and was killed at Peach
Tree Creek, July 20, 1864.
(768). GEORGE CALLENDER SIGGINS, son of Al-
exander, was enrolled November 28, 1861, also in same
company and regiment and took part in all of the engage-
ments, and also in those of Resaca, Atlanta and New Hope
Church, and died at Chattanooga on June 27, 1864, of
wounds received at Dallas, Ga. Was buried in National
Cemetery, grave 305; Vet., his remains were later removed
to Youngsville, Pa.
(56). CYRUS J. RICHARDSON, (son-in-law of George
Siggins) enlisted August 28, 1862, as a private in Com-
pany F, 145th Pennsylvania volunteers in which command
he fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettys-
burg and was discharged on account of wounds received
in the last named battle.
(243). GEORGE SIGGINS RICHARDSON, son of
Cyrus, enlisted wtih his father in the same company and
Other Families 327
regiment. He took part in all the engagements in which
his regiment participated, whi 2 included after Gettys-
burg, those of Auburn, Bristoe station, Spottsylvania, Cold
Harbor, Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Hatcher's Run, Ream's
Station and Apptomattox and was mustered out unhurt
at the close of the war.
(262). ISAAC RICHARDSON, another son of Cyrus,
was enrolled some time in 1861, in Company D, 12th United
States Infantry, and took part in all of the important en-
gagements of the army of the Potomac, in Syke's brigade
of regulars, and was killed in the wilderness on May 5,
1864.
791). A. A. TRASK, grandson of Alexander Siggins,
enlisted as sergeant, April 1861, in Company D, of the
"Bucktails", the 42nd Regiment, at Warren. He fought
at Drainsville, Harrisonburg, Cross Keys, Mechansville,
was taken prisoner at Gaines Mills, fought again at Glen-
dale, Catlett's Station and Manassas and was killed at
South Mountain in August 1862.
(801). W. Vincent Trask, grandson of Alexander Sig-
gins, and brother of A. A. Trask, was enrolled at the same
time as a private in the same company and regiment, and
fought in all the battles just mentioned and at Antietam,
Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. He also was taken prison-
er at Gains' Mills. He was discharged on account of wounds
in 1864.
(792). S. L. Trask, another brother, was enrolled as a
private on the 20th of October, 1861, in Company D, 111th
Pennsylvania, as a volunteer. He fought in the engage-
ments at Cedar Mountain, Harpers Ferry, Antietam and
minor battles, and was discharged for wounds in 1864.
(795). N. B. Trask a fourth brother, enlisted Septem-
ber 5, 1864, on the gunboat Springfield in the Mississippi
Squadron of the United States Navy. He fought at John-
sonville, Clarksville, Nashville, and Vicksburg, and was dis-
charged in 1865 by reason of the close of the war.
o28 SlGGINS AND
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN .A SMITH, a son-in-law of
Nathaniel Hood Siggins, was enrolled as a private in Com-
pany G, on August 17, 1861, but was promoted to sergeant,
to second lieutenant, to first lieutenant, and to captain,
the last for gallant conduct on the field. He was wounded
at Spottsylvania but never left his company and was killed
in command of his company at Hatcher's Run, Feb. 6, 1865.
He was a veteran as the term was understood then, and
obtained a furlough early in 1865, during which he visited
his home and was married to Marianne Siggins. He re-
turned to the army and in about two weeks after his mar-
riage he was killed. Captain Smith was a polished scholar
and gentleman, a sterling and valorous soldier.
(228). JUDSON BLANCHARD, a grandson-in-law of
George Siggins, enlisted in Company A, on its organization
as a private and served courageously with his regiment until
the battle of Gettysburg, in which he was wounded and
discharged on that account. He re-enlisted as a first-lieu-
tenant in 1864 in Company F, 199th Pennsylvaina Regi-
ment and was promoted to captain of Company I, same
regiment for skill and daring displayed in action. He
died at Lima, Ohio, on the 27th day of February 1896.
(156). CAPTAIN PETER GRACE, a son-in-law of
Nathaniel Hood Siggins, was enrolled on August 19, 1861,
as a private in Company G, and served therein until the
close of the war. During his term of service he was suc-
cessively promoted to corporal, to sergeant, to 2nd lieuten-
ant, and then to captain of Company E, (reorganized) for
meritorious conduct on the field. He was wounded and
taken prisoner at Gains' Mills, in '62, and spent 60 days in
Libby and Belle Isle prisons when he was exchanged. He
reinlisted as a veteran and was mustered out on the 12th
of July 1865. In the battle of the Wilderness Captain
Grace's conduct was such as to eventually elicit a special
order from the war department, of which the following is
a verbatim copy.
Other Families 329
L. B. R. Address:
Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Depart-
ment, Washington, D. C. Subject — Medal of honor, No.
398.237.
Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washing-
ton City, Dec. 27, 1894. Captain Peter Grace, late of
Company E, Eighty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, 144
Chandler Street Jamestown, N. Y.
Sir: — I have the honor to inform you that, by direction
of the president, and in accordance with the act of Con-
gress approved March 2, 1863, providing for the presenta-
tion of medals of honor to such officers, non-commissioned
officers and privates as have most distinguished themselves
in action, the secretary of war has awarded you a medal
of honor for gallantry at the battle of the Wilderness, Vir-
ginia, May 5, 1864. The medal has been forwarded to you
by registered mail. Upon receipt of the medal please ad-
vise this office thereof.
Very respectfully
F. C. AINSWORTH.
Colonel, U. S. Army.
Chief Record and Pension Office.
CAPTAIN W. C. HOWE, a son-in-law of George Simp-
son Siggins, enlisted in February 1863, as a private in Com-
pany M, California Cavalry Battalion. He was engaged in
the battles of Ashby's Gap, Poolsville, Drainsville, Din-
woody Court House, Opequaw, Halltown, Wilderness, South
End Bridge, Five Forks, Winchester, Sailors Creek and
several minor ones, and finally Appomattox. A special
order was issued to the regiment complimenting him for
gallant and meritorious conduct on the field of battle Sep-
tember 19 1864. Private Howe was promoted to sergeant,
2nd lieutenant, 1st lieutenant, and captain during his term
of service, and afterwards was given a lieutenant colonel's
commission as division inspector in the national guard of
Pennsylvania.
330 SlGGINS AND
(75. WILLIAM PARKER SlGGINS, son of William and
grandson of George Siggins, enlisted August 6, 1861, as
corporal in Company G, and was discharged September 20,
1864, by reason of the expiration of his term of service.
He was with the regiment in every engagement in which
it was engaged during his term and was one of its most
courageous and efficient members.
(146). JAMES P. SIGGINS, cousin of William P., went
out in the same company in August, 1861, as corporal and
was discharged as an orderly sergeant Sept. 20, 1864, on
the expiration of his term of service. Up to that time he
was with his company continuously and never missed a
battle nor skirmish. He was wounded at Hanover Court
House, but not so badly as to be obliged to leave his com-
pany for the hospital. He limped along as best he could,
rather than give up and return to the rear.
(148.) NATHANIEL SIMPSON SlGGINS, brother of
James P., (sons of Nathaniel Hood Siggins) enlisted at the
same time but in Company C, of the same regiment, as a
musician, in which capacity he served until the expiration
of his term, in September 1864. While he carried neither
gun nor sword, as a rule, his service was none the less con-
spicious and efficient. He enjoyed the distinction of being
the best known man, personally, in the regiment, except
the colonel. In battle he slipped the fife into his pocket
and shouldered and fired his gun with the best of them.
He died at Bradford on January 26, 1893.
(152). ISAAC W. SlGGINS, a brother of James P., and
Nathaniel S., and the youngest of the family, was too
young to enlist in 1861, but did get there in 1864, nearly
at the tail end of the war. He was accepted as one of
Uncle Sam's recruits on March 24th of that year and as-
signed to Company G, as a private and served with more
or less distinction and honor to himself until July 3d,
when he was mustered out because there were no more re-
bellions to put down.
Other Families 331
Of the military records of Wilbur and Isaac Magee, Ir-
vine Siggins and of Irvine and Walter Mead, all blood re-
lations, I have no trace. Nor those of Clinton Smith, and
John Gilfillan, relatives by marriage, have I been able to
hear anything. No doubt they were all excellent soldiers.
An now in conclusion let us do honor to all the volunteer
soldiers of the Siggins family — to all the living, to all the
dead, to those whose scars give even modesty a tongue;
who belonged to the mightiest host that was ever brought
together in the same length of time by a Republic; who,
when the war was over drifted back to their homes, to
their loving wives and to the girls they loved; to their
workshops and their farms, with nothing to distinguish
them from the rest of their countrymen; only proud in the
satisfaction that they had fought for and saved their
country from destruction; that they had secured that
blessed inheritance for their children and their children's
children, that they might stand under the waving folds
of the starry banner of their country and say like the
Spartans of old: "Float on, float on! This land of Liberty."
SlGGINS AND
CONNELY FAMILY..
Isaac Connely, (No. — 949). His name appears in the list
of taxibles in the Middle Ward, city of Philadelphia, 1780 ;
value of estates: $28,000,00, (I suppose in Continental
money), a. Archives, 3d., Series, Vol. XV. p. 112. Also in
1782; value $1,150.00, Vol. XVI. p. 344; also 1783; Vol.
XVI. p. 7930.
His marriage to Rebecca Robinson, is mentioned in the
Records of St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, Pa., Archives,
2nd Series, p. 460. 1776. October 26.
He kept the "Black Horse" Inn, on Market Street be-
tween 4th and 5th streets, Pa., Archives, 3d Series, Vol.
II, p. 966. This was the street on which George Washing-
ton lived and he knew him well. Washington presented
him with a cane and a picture, painted in Ireland; these
are now in the possession of his gr. gr. granddaughter, Mrs.
E. F. Kerwick, of Portland, New York.
In all deeds signed by him he wrote his name Connely,
but many of his descendants spell it Connelly.
Rebecca Robinson, who marreid Isaac Connely, was
widow of Henry Robinson, and had four children. She was
a daughter of Samuel Garruges, a merchant of Philadelphia,
but so pronounced a Tory that he was imprisoned. She
died in Philadelphia.
949. ISAAC CONNELY', b. 1747; in Ireland; d. July 4,
1823, in Venango County, Pa., is buried at Stew-
arts Run; m. 1st, October 26, 1776, in Phila-
delphia, Pa., Rebecca (Garruges) Robinson, widow
of Henry Robinson; m. 2nd, Margaret Robinson,
widow, a sister-in-law of his first wife; m. 3d,
Rachel Hughey. Children by 1st marriage:
ISAAC CONNELY.
(949)
b. Oct. 4, 1747. d. July 4. 1823.
(Copy of a Painting by Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere.)
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i.
953.
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954.
955.
iii.
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956.*
v.
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Other Families 333
950.* i. WILLIAM Connely 2 , b. July 22, 1777, in Phila-
delphia; m.
Elizabeth Allender, (No.— 1184).
951. ii. SUSAN Connely 2 , m. John Hunter, of Steu-
benville, Ohio, and had:
JANE Hunter ; , m. John C. Sterling.
REBECCA Hunter', m. Mr. Gladden.
REBECCA Connely 2 , b. March 23, 1779; m.
James Allender, (No. — 1185). No issue.
A child who died in infancy un-namecl.
HANNAH Connely 2 , b. February 22, 1784; d.
January 5, 1871; m.
Thomas Dawson, (No. — 1095).
Children by 2nd marriage:
956a. vi. JAMES Connely 2 , father of Judge James L.
Connely 3 , of Franklin, Pa.
Children by 3d marriage:
957. vii. ELIZA Connely 2 , m. Parkhurst Copeland.
958. viii. GEORGE Connely 2 , (Dr. George Connely, of
Franklin) m.
Margaret Lourie, (They were grandparents of L.
G. C. Dunlap).
959. ix. MARY Connely 2 , d. never married.
960.* x. SARAH Connely 2 b. August 21, 1808; d. 1883;
m. 1st, William Aldrich; m. 2d,
George McAuley.
961. xi. ROBERT Connely 2 , m. Miss Cottingwood.
962. xii. JANE Connely 2 , d. un-married at Pleasantville
Pa.
963. xiii. NANCY Connely 2 , m. William Haight.
334 SlGGINS AND
The above record omits Isaac Connely, who married
Sarah Siggins, makes Rebecca Robinson his first wife and
gives his second wife as Margaret Robinson; that Judge
Isaac Connely who married Sarah Siggins, was not a son
of Isaac Connely is shown by the following from the manu-
script of Rev. David Kinnear.
"WILLIAM CONNELY, came to America long before
the Revolutionary War, he lived in Berks County, Penn-
sylvania; he had two sons; Robert and Isaac; he died in
peace in Venango County in 1823; in the seventy-seventh
years of his age.
This Isaac Connely, married Sarah Siggins, daughter of
John and Sarah Siggins and sister of George Siggins ; they
lived in Warren County."
From Manuscript of Rev. David Kinnear.
The following news paper clipping, which is without
date, was probably printed about 1864, at which time Judge
Isaac Connely died, seems to confirm the above statement:
"Rev. William Connely, father of Judge Isaac Connely,
was a Methodist minister and preached the first sermon in
Franklin, on the "Diamond" under the shade of an old
chestnut tree, his congregation consisted of seven Indians
and five white men, this tree was long a land-mark and
was blown down only a few years ago".
Rev. Kinnear's manuscript also contains the following:
"William Connely, was a son of Isaac and Rebecca Connely,
"he was born in Philadelphia County, Pa., July 22, 1777".
The Kinnear manuscript above referred to, is a history
of the Kinnear-Siggins-Young-and kindred families who
lived in Center, Venango, Warren and adjacent counties in
Pennsylvania, this material was gathered by him during
the years of 1830 to 1847, when most of the older mem-
bers of these families were alive and he knew them per-
sonally, and visited with them for the purpose of securing
names, dates and facts concerning all who were in any way
Other Families 335
related, many of the dates of birth, marriage and death of
Siggins-Young-Dawson-Allender-Connely and other fami-
lies contained in this genealogy are taken from this manu-
script and when compared with family records have been
found to be correct in every way. (Ed.)
William Connely 1746-1823, may have been and probably
was, a brother of Isaac Connely 1747-1823. (Ed.)
William Connely, No. — 950). "Died in Franklin, Penn-
sylvania, May 23, 1871; in the ninety fourth year of
his age. He was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 22,
1777; at the close of the Revolutionary War he was liv-
ing in Philadelphia and had frequent opportunities of
eeing and hearing the distinguished men of that day;
•.mong others George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams.
In 1795 Mr. Connely with his uncle Rees came with a
party to survey the triangle at Erie, the incidents of that
trip were always fresh in his recollection.
During his long life he was wonderfully exempt from
sickness, last autumn his bodily powers began to fail as
the result of an accident in which he injured his hip joint,
but, he retained to a remarkable degree the faculties of his
mind and good humor, he was very happy in spirit and
apparently saw but few, if any gloomy moments, he sank
slowly to his rest. For over sixty years Mr. Connely had
been a respected and useful citizen of this city."
(From a Franklin Pa. Newspaper.)
In Vol. VIII. p 53, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series. I
find the following marriage record, which probably refers
to the uncle Rees mentioned above. (Ed).
1762, October 14, Connely, Sarah and Daniel Rees.
(950. WILLIAM CONNELY 2 , b. July 22, 1777, in Phil-
adelphia, Pa.; d. May 23, 1871, in Franklin, Pa.; m.:
336 SlGGINS AND
Elizabeth Allender, (No.— 1184), b. February 27, 1784.
Their children were:
964. i. MARY Connely"', m. in Greenville, Pa.:
Arthur Robinson, he died in Franklin, Pa. No
issue.
965.* ii. ELIZABETH Connely 3 , m.
Alexander McCalmont.
966.* iii. WILLIAM Connely 1 , went to Africa and died
there.
967. iv. ISAAC Connely 3 , never married.
968.* v. RACHEL Hemphill Connely 3 , m.
John Evans.
969. vi. REBECCA Connely 3 .
970. vii. JAMES Findley Connely 3 , b. September 7,
1817; d. December 30, 1890; m. 1st,
Elizabeth Cottingwood, b. February 21, 1816; d.
July 17, 1856; m. 2nd, Abigail Cornelius.
By first marriage he had one son:
971. AUSTIN Monroe Connely 4 , of Ashville, N.
Y., R. F. D.-63,) b. November 21, 1854; m.
March 8, 1882:
Jessie Winona Cummings, b. September 7, 1861.
Their children are :
972. i. MARTIN Harrison Connely 5 , b. March
8, 1883; m. Sept. 22, 1904:
Minnie E. Morley. Their children are:
973. i. KENNETH Austin Connely 6 , b.
December 15, 1906.
974. ii. LESLIE Herbert Connely 6 , b.
March 29, 1908.
WILLIAM CONNELY.
(950)
RACHEL HEMPHILL (CONNELY) EVANS.
(968)
Other Families 337
975. iii. CLARENCE Morley Connely", b.
March 4, 1816.
976. ii. HERBERT Lee Connely 3 , b. Feb. 28,
1885; m. August 9, 1910.
Dorothy Barnes, they have one son:
977. i. AUSTIN Warner Connely", b.
May 5, 1914.
978. iii. FRANK Harold Connely"', b. July 18,
1902.
By second marriage James Findley Connely had one son :
Charles Connely 6 , and three daughters: Mary, Rachel and
Amedia.
338 SlGGINS AND
McCALMONT FAMILY.
979. REV. THOMAS McCALMONT 1 resided at Cairn
Castle, County Antrim, Ireland. Children:
980.* i. THOMAS McCalmont 2 , emigrated to America
after 1766; m. Susan Wallace, in Leitrim Co.,
Ireland.
981. ii. JAMES McCalmont 2 , m. Hannah Blair.
982. iii. JOHN McCalmont 2 , b. May 1, 1709; came
to America; d. 1779; m. a Latimer of County
Tyrone.
983. iv. ROBERT McCalmont 2 .
984. v. HUGH McCalmont 2 .
985. JOHN McCALMONT 3 , son of Thomas and Susan
(Wallace) McCalmont, b. January 1, 1750, (os), in
Antrim, County Antrim, Ireland; came to Amer-
ica in 1766; settled near Philadelphia, and m. in
1773:
Elizabeth Conard, b. 1750; dau. of Henry and Jane
(Stroud) Conard; he was in Capt. Alexander
Brown's company of Pennsylvania Militia, under
Gen. Lacey, and wintered at Valley Forge; he
lived for a time at Greenwood, now Mifflin County,
and in 1783 removed to Nittany Valley, he re-
mained there until 1805, he moved to Venango
County and located in Sugar Creek Township,
about four miles from Franklin; he died August
3, 1832, at the home of his son Henry, in Corn-
planter Township, Franklin County; his wife died
August 12, 1829, and was buried in the old grave-
yard at Franklin. Children:
Other Families 339
986. i. THOMAS McCalmont 3 , b. October 14, 1774.
987. ii. HENRY McCalmont 3 , b. March 15, 1776.
988. iii. JOHN McCalmont 3 , b. January 15, 1779; was
drowned; ag. 18, Mo.
989. iv. JAMES McCalmont 3 , b. May 17, 1781; served
in War of 1812; was wounded at the battle of
Bridgewater, and died three weeks later.
990.* v. JOHN McCalmont 3 , b. September 9, 1788; d.
August 27, 1877; m. 2nd, January 18, 1818:
Mary H. Plumer, dau. of Sammuel ; she d. Sep-
tember 3, 1842.
991. * vi. ALEXANDER McCalmont 3 , b. October 23,
1785, in Greenwood ; m. 2nd, in 1818, Elizabeth
Connely.
992. vii. ROBERT McCalmont 3 , b. August 26, 1783.
993. viii. ELIZABETH 3 , b. February 3, 1791 ; m. William
Shaw.
994. ix. SARAH McCalmont 3 , b. November 3, 1792; m.
George Crain.
995. x. JANE McCalmont 3 , b. October 8, 1794; m.
James Ricketts.
996. xi. JOSEPH McCalmont 3 , b. November 23, 1798.
997. SAMUEL PLUMER McCALMONT 4 , son of John and
Mary (Plumer) McCalmont, b. Sugar Creek Town-
ship, Venango County, Pa., September 21, 1823;
educated in the common country schools of the
county, supplemented by a short term at Alle-
gheny College; after which he studied law in the
office of his uncle, Judge Alexander McCalmont;
was admitted to the bar of Venango County, No-
vember 25, 1847; and became one of the most
able attorneys of the county; he was bitterly op-
posed to slavery, and was one of the organizers of
340 SlGGINS AND
the Republican party at Pittsburgh in 1856; was
a member of the State Legislature in 1855, and
twice thereafter; in 1874, he aided in organizing
the Prohibition party. He married in April 1859:
Harriet Osborne, dau. of Piatt Smith Osborne; she
was born January 20, 1836; died December 25,
1912. Children:
998. i. SAMUEL Plumer McCalmont, Jr. 5 .
999. ii. MARY Plumer McCalmont 5 .
1000. iii. JOHN Osborne McCalmont'.
1001. iv. Dr. HARRIETTE Osborne McCalmont 5 .
1002. v. JAMES Donald McCalmont 5 , b. February
10, 1870.
1003. vi. CONSTANCE Plumer McCalmont 5 , b. July 6,
1874.
1004. vii. DAVID Burnett McCalmont 5 , b. December 1,
1876; m. September 26, 1900:
Edna Swallow, b. December 31, 1878, dau. of Bur-
ling and Lydia (Schyler-Jack) Swallow. Chil-
dren :
1005. i. VIRGINIA Lucretia McCalmont", b. Sept.
10 ,1905.
1006. ii. SAMUEL Plumer McCalmont, 3d 6 , b.
Nov. 11, 1906.
1007. iii. DAVID Burnett McCalmont, Jr.*, b. Aug.
9, 1909.
(991). ALEXANDER McCALMONT 3 , 1785-1857, b.
October 23, 1785 ; at Greenwood, Mifflin Co. Pa. ; came with
his parents to Venango County where he lived the remain-
der of his life; having acquired a good education he be-
came a school teacher, and later a merchant ; he was a dem-
ocrat and took active interest in local politics; sheriff in
1812; commissioner in 1814; prothonotary in 1818; studied
r
Vrf" F )
Other Families 341
law and admitted to the bar in 1820; had the reputation
of being an able attorney; was appointed presiding judge
of the Eighteenth Judicial District in 1839, and served with
distinction ten years; d. August 10, 1857, at Franklin,
Pennsylvania ; m. 1st, Margaret Broadfoot, dau. of John ;
she d. 1817, without issue, m. 2nd, 1818, Elizabeth Connely,
b. 1801, in Bellefonte, dau. of William and Elizabeth (Al-
lender) Connely. Children.
1008.* i. WILLIAM McCalmont 4 , who emigrated to
Australia.
1009. ii. Judge JOHN Swazey McCalmont 4 , b. April 28,
1822; d. 1896; m. Elizabeth Stehley; he entered
West Point July 1, 1838 ; graduated and appoint-
ed Brevet 2nd Lieut. July 31, 1842; 2nd Lieut.
U. S. I. October 10, 1842; resigned July 1, 1853;
Col. 10th Pa. Reserves July 21, 1861; resigned
May 9,1862.
1010. iii. Gen. ALFRED B. McCalmont 4 , b. April 28,
1825, in Venango County, Pa.; d. May 7, 1874;
he was educated in the common schools and at
Allegheny and Dickinson Colleges, graduated
from the later in 1844; studied law in his fa-
ther's office was admitted to the Venango Coun-
ty bar May 25, 1847; removed to Pittsburgh
where he became a successful attorney ; in 1855,
was appointed by the Supreme Court prothono-
tary of the western district of Pennsylvania;
resigned in 1858, to accept the position of Chief
Clerk to Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, attorney gen-
eral of the United States, in the cabinet of Presi-
dent Buchanan. In 1862 he recruited a company
of volunteers for the 142, Reg. Pa. Volunteers,
and by successive promotions was made colonel
of the 208 Pennsylvania Regiment, and was
given the rank of brevet brigadier-general by
President Lincoln. It was said of him he was
"always ready to lead an attack, but never will-
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342 SlGGINS AND
ing to lead a retreat". He married April 25,
1853, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sarah F. Evans, dau. of Evan Reece Evans.
Children :
1011. i. LYDIA Collins McCalmont 5 , b. February
12, 1854; m. Thomas McGeough.
1012. ii. SARAH Lowry McCalmont", b. June 7,
1856; m. W. V. Lewison.
1013. iii. ROBERT McCalmont 5 , b. September 18,
1859, in Washington; m. Jessie B. Crawford,
dau. of William R. and Jane (Kerr) Craw-
ford. Is an attorney at Franklin, Pa.
1014. iv. ELIZABETH McCalmont 4 , b.
d. , m. January 25, 1844.
General Edwin Clinton Wilson, (see Wilson
Family No. 1025). b. February 20, 1820, in
Steubenville, Ohio. Children:
1015. i. ALEXANDER McCalmont Wilson,
b. November 3, 1844, in Franklin, Pa.,
enlisted at the age of seventeen in the
103d Reg. Ohio Volunteers, served
through the civil war and was with
Sherman on his "march to the sea."
Later a member of the board of review
Pension Bureau, Department of the In-
terior at Washington, he died at Ocean
Grove, N. J., September 3, 1898 ; he mar-
ried in 1869, in Philadelphia.
Mary McBride, dau. of Samuel Kerr and
Jane (Burnside) McBride.
1016. ii. HENRY Medary Wilson, b. in
Franklin, Pa., October, 1846, he was
reared in Franklin and Erie, was edu-
cated in the common schools of the towns
and later attended the Lawrenceville,
New Jersey College, read law in the
Other Families 343
office of his uncle, Judge John Swaze
McCalmont, at Franklin, but abandon-
ing law became manager of the exten-
sive machinery and supply business of
Bayne, Wilson and Pratt, with head-
quarters at Pittsburgh; he married in
1874;
Mary Funk, dau. of William Rufus and
Jane (Griffiths) Funk. He died June
21, 1905.
1017. iii. JOHN Adams Wilson, b. September
24, 1851, in Franklin, Pa., educated in
Franklin and Erie common schools and
at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, graduated
from Princeton University, "Class of
73." Was admitted to the bar, after
practicing a few years, entered the oil
business and is a member of the Galena
Oil Company, of Franklin. He married
May 18, 1875, in Franklin, Pa.
Ida Gordon, dau. of Hiram B. and Anne
(McClintock) Gordon.
344 SlGGINS AND
WILSON FAMILY
1018. James Wilson, immigrant ancestor of:
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON, and of General
Edwin Clinton Wilson, was born in county Downs, Ireland,
came to the United States about 1804, and located in Phil-
adelphia, and was at first employed on the staff of the
AURORA, a leading newspaper of the time, edited by Col.
William Duane, he developed such talent for the business
that in 1812 he was made manager of the paper.
Later he went to Pittsburg and then to Steubenville,
Ohio, where he established The Western Herald, in 1832
he established in Pittsburgh the Pennsylvania Advocate,
which was printed from the first press west of the Alle-
gheny mountains capable of printing two pages at one
impression, in the publication of this paper he was assisted
by four of his sons, one of whom William Duane Wilson
succeeded to the management.
He was a man of strong character and unyielding in the
maintenance of his opinions, he died in Steubenville, Ohio,
in 1850.
He married November 1, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa.,
Anne Adams, who was also born in county Downs, Ire-
land and came over in the same ship, she was one of the
most strict Presbyterians of the time. Children :
1019. i. WILLIAM Duane Wilson, who later lived in
Des Moines, la.
1020. ii. MARY Jane Wilson.
1021. iii. ROBERT Wilson, b. September 10, 1813, in
Philadelphia.
Other Families 345
1022. iv. Rev. JAMES Wilson, who became a Metho-
dist minister.
1023. v. JOHN A. Wilson, a dry goods merchant in
Pittsburgh.
1024. vi. HENRY Wilson )
1025. vii. EDWIN Clinton Wilson) triplets.
1026. viii. MARGARETTA Wilson )
b. February 16, 1820, in Steubenville, O.
1027. ix. ELIZABETH Wilson, m.
Adam Beggs, of Cleveland, Ohio.
1028. x. JOSEPH R. Wilson, b. March 24, 1824, in
Steubenville, Ohio, entered the Presbyterian
ministry; married June 7, 1849;
Janet Woodrow, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and went to
Staunton, Va., where their son:
1029. WOODROW WILSON, was born, December 28,
1856.
(996) WILLIAM CONNELY, went to Africa, of his
children :
1030. i. WILLIAM McCalmont Connely 4 , b. 1846, in
Africa, came to America about 1861, and found
his relatives in Franklin, Pennsylvania. He lived
with his Aunt Rachel Hemphill (Connely) Evans,
and clerked in the drug store of his uncle, John
Evans ; later he went to Kansas City, Missouri,
where he married
Stella Barnett, and they had one son :
1031. i. CHARLES Connely 3 , b. in Kansas City,
Mo.
After the death of William McCalmont Connely, his
widow Stella (Barnett) Connely, m. 2nd Prof. Fisk, a
musician of Kansas City, Mo.
346 SlGGINS AND
(968) RACHEL HEMPHILL CONNELY 3 , married
John Evans. Children:
1032. i. ROBINSON Evans 4 .
1033. ii. HARVEY Evans 4 .
1034. iii. ELIZABETH Evans 4 , Post Mistress at
Franklin, Pennsylvania.
1035. iv. Dr. WILLIAM Connely Evans 4 , b. 1829, in
Franklin, Pa.
1036.
v. MARY Evans 4 .
1037.
vi. JAMES T. Evans 4 , b. April 2, 1833; m.
Ellen Grace, b. Sept. 26, 1829.
1038.
vii. LAURA Evans 4 , b.
1039.
viii. JOHN St John Evans 4 , b. d. March
1041.
X.
1042.
xi.
1043.
xii
1040. ix. FRANCES Erminia Evans 4 , unm., living in
1912, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 2617 Penn-
sylvania Ave.
HARRIET Durby Evans 4 .
AMELIA Evans 4 .
ANN Aseneth Evans 4 , b. Nov. 8, 1849, in
Franklin, Pa., married JOHN CHURCHES
PORCH, b. March 17, 1839, in Somersetshire,
Eng. A son of Richard and Ann (Churches)
Porch, they came to America, arriving on Nov.
8, 1849, the day their son's future wife was
born. Living 1912 in Kansas City, Mo.
(1035) DR. WILLIAM CONNELY EVANS 4 , born in
Franklin, Pa., in 1829, was educated in Franklin and Pitts-
burg; read medicine with Dr. B. Gillett, and after a course
in the Western Reserve Medical College graduated in 1854;
he practiced in Franklin, Tionesta, Northeast, and at Erie,
he was appointed Colonel by Gov. William F. Packer and or-
Other Families 347
ganized the 10th Pennsylvania Reserves; this regiment is
noted for having done much valuable service in the Civil
War. He was a member of the Erie Medical Society, and
was at one time its president ,also served eleven years con-
secutively as its secretary, he was also a member of the
State and National Medical Associations, and also one of
the United States Pension examiners, a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Ancient Order of United
Workmen, Lodge No. 61, t y he Equitable Aid Union, No. 50,
of the Knights of Honor, No. 99, the Erie Lodge of Elks
and of the Masonic order in various branches.
About the year 1870 he removed to Kansas City, Mo.,
and in 1871 was appointed by Mayor William Warner to
the office of City Physician, and reappointed for the year
1872 by Mayor R. H. Hunt.
William Connely, the grandfather of Dr. Evans, lived
with him at his home in Franklin several years ; this grand-
father, though only a small boy at the time, sold tin cups
to the soldiers in Philadelphia during the Revolution for
25 cents each.
Dr. W. C. Evans was born in Franklin in 1829,
m. Katheryn Turner (a dau. of Luke Turner) ; they had one
son:
1044. i. ARTHUR Robinson Turner', b. in Franklin
and d. at Northeast at the age of 12 years and
8 months; he and his mother who died in Sep-
tember and an adopted son, Willie Con-
nely are buried in the cemetery at Northeast.
(1037) James T. Evans 4 , Rachel H. 3 , b. April 2, 1833. m.
Ellen Grace, b. Sept. 26, 1829. Children :
1045. i. ELIZABETH E. Evans"', b. Sept. 1, 1854; m.
1870.
Rev. E. M. Kerwick, a Methodist Minister who
preached at Tidioute; this family live in (1912)
Portland, N. Y. Children:
348 SlGGINS AND
1046. i. ELLEN Grace Kerwick , b. Sept. 21,
1871; m. August 26, 1892.
Rev. H. H. Claire.
1047. ii. MYRTLE L. Kerwick , b. Oct. 19, 1874.
1048. iii. CHARLES Evans Kerwick", b. Dec. 24,
1882; d.
1049. iv. ARTHUR Tourgee Kerwick* 1 , b. June 7,
1887; m. June 20, 1910.
Emma Magill, a dau. of Beecher and Ella
( ) Magill. They have one son:
1050 EDWARD Beecher Kerwick 7 , b. Aug. 21,
1911.
1051. ii. MARY Eva Evans"', m.
J. B. SMITH.
(1043) ANN ASENETH EVANS 4 , b. November 8,
1849, in Franklin, Pa.; m.
John Churches Porch; b. March 17, 1839, in Somerset-
shire, England ; he came with his parents in 1849, to Ameri-
ca, arriving on Nov. 8th, the day on which his future wife
was born. Children:
1052. i. WILLIAM Frederick Porch 5 , b. Oct. 16, 1865,
in Franklin, Pa.; m. 1st
Jennie Hays; they had one son:
1053. i. SHIRLEY Porch , b. August 8, 1899; m.
2nd
Phene ; they have one dau:
1054. ii. RUTH Porch , b. Live in Madi-
son, Wis.
1055. ii. FRANK Richard Porch 5 , b. , in
Mercer Co., Pa.; m. , 1902,
Mary Lehay; living (1912) in Chicago, 111.
1056. iii. MAUD Amelia Porch', b. Nov. 30, 1873, in
Chebense, 111.; m.
Other Families 349
William T. Osborne, b. Sept. 15, 1852; a son of
James and Hannah Margaret (Aikins) Osborne,
who died in Milroy, N. Y. Children:
1057. i. FRANK Evans Osborne", b. July 27, 1901.
1058. ii. WILLIAM Thomas Osborne", b. Sept. 9,
1905.
1059. iii. ELIZABETH Ann Osborne", b. Sept. 15,
1910; living in 1912 in Kansas City, Mo.
1060. iv. JOHN Sidney Porch 3 , b. Jan. 27, 1875, in Dono-
van, 111. Living in 1912 in Madison, Wis.
1061. v. HARRY Porch', b. in Forest,
Livingston Co., 111.
(960) SARAH CONNELY 2 , b. August 21, 1808; d.
1883; m. 1st William
Aldrich; m. 2nd George McAuley; b.
July 18, 1804, in Londonderry, Ireland; d. Nov. 30, 1893.
(He had m. 1st Eliza McCormick.) Children of Sarah and
William Aldrich:
ISAAC Aldrich 1 , d. in Pleasantville, Pa., unm.
CORDELIA Aldrich', b. January 8, 1832; m.
Jerry Birtcil. Children:
IDA Birtcil 4 , m. John Hawke..
FRANK Birtcil 4 , m. Ella Hanlon.
GEORGE Birtcil 4 .
RAY BIRTCIL 4 .
Children of Sarah and George McAuley:
1068. iii. NANCY McAuley', b. March 28, 1844; m.
Henry Hull. Children:
1069. i. BLANCH Hull 4 , b. February 24, 1866.
1070. ii. JOSEPHINE Hull 4 , b. May 22, 1879.
1071. iii. CHESTER Hull 4 , b. September 24, 1881.
1062.
i. I
1063.
ii. C
Jerry
1064.
i.
1065.
ii.
1066.
iii.
1067.
iv,
350 SlGGINS AND
1072. iv. SARAH Josephine McAuley 3 , b. June 10, 1846;
m.
Henry DeRocher, b. Feb. 4, 1844. Children:
1073. i. BERTHA DeRocher 4 , b. Nov. 13, 1865;
James B. Thompson, b. Oct. 29, 1856.
1074. GERTRUDE Thompson 5 , b. Aug. 26, 1884;
m.
Bernard King. Children:
1075. i. CYRIE Bernard King 6 , b. Aug. 10,
1905.
1076. ii. JAMES Edward King 6 , b. Dec. 23,
1907.
1078. ii. RUTH Thompson", b. March 13, 1893.
1079. ii. MAUD DeRocher 4 , b. Feb. 8, 1867; m.
George Thompson, b. Sept. 16, , a brother of
James B. Thompson; and had one son:
1080. DONALD M. Thompson 3 , b. Aug. 13, 1891.
1081. iii. LILLIAN DeRocher 4 , b. Oct. 13, 1870
m.
John Miller, of Clearfield, Pa., b. June 4, 1872.
1082. Iv. KLAHRE DeRocher 4 , b. Sept. 9, 1885;
m.
Edna Gray, b. May 2, 1886; a dau. of L. G.
and Adda Gray, of Tidioute, and had one
daughter:
1883 DOROTHY Jean DeRocher 5 , b. Jan. 15, 1910.
1084. v. CHARLES Harvey McAuley 3 , b. April 13,
1850; m.
Sarah Sully. Children:
1085. i. JAMES Garfield Blaine McAuley 4 , b.
1086. ii. MARY McAuley 4 .
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1087. vi. ELIZA McAuley 3 , b. Oct. 21, 1852; m.
Myron Newton, b. Feb. 27, 1840. Children
1088. i. CHARLES Newton 4 , b. May 1, 1872; d.
1910.
1089. ii. SARAH Newton 4 , b. May 2, 1880 ; m.
Edward Shaver; no children.
1090. iii. HARRIETT Newton 4 , b. Nov. 19, 1883.
YARD OF THE BLACK HORSE INN. PHILADELPHIA
Kept by Isaac Connely (949) during the Revolutionary War.
(Vol. V., Journal of American History.)
352 SlGGINS AND
CONNELY REUNIONS.
The Connely family held a reunion at Ludlow, Pennsyl-
vania, August 31, 1912, at the home of James Connely, as-
sisted by his father William A. Connely and his brother
Wales.
A ledger kept by their ancestor Isaac Connely was ex-
hibited, and showed accounts kept by him in 1793; the
entries were made in pounds-shillings and pence, and showed
the retail price of wheat was fifty-four cents a bushel and
buck-wheat twenty-eight cents a bushel.
Officers elected were: Martin Connely of Stow, N. Y.,
President; Lyman Shattuck of Pleasantville, Pa., Vice-
President; Mrs. Margaret Shattuck of Pleasantville, Secre-
tary; Claude Field, Treasurer; O. F. Chase of Jamestown,
N. Y., Historian.
The committee arranged for a meeting to be held August
11, 1913, on Lake Chautauqua, near Stow, N. Y., where the
history of the family from 1747 to 1826 will be reviewed.
Among those present at Stowe, N. Y., August 23, 1913,
were: Mr. and Mrs. James A. Connely, Luella, Ethelyn,
Burnall, Mr. and Mrs. Wales Connely and William Connely
of Ludlow; Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Copeland and daughter,
Phylis, of Cumberland, Md. ; Mrs. Pearl Bowers and three
children, of Tulsa, Okla. ; Mrs. Margaret Shattuck and
daughter, of Pleasantville; Mr. and Mrs. Claud Fields, of
South Wales, N. Y.; Max Field, of Guthrie, Okla.; Miss
Genevieve Getty, of Cumberland, Md. ; Mrs. Ralph Cope-
land, of Blaine, W. Va. ; Mrs. Amelia Connely, of Pleasant-
ville; Charles Brant, of Titusville, and Orlin Connely, of
Lima, Ohio.
Other Families 353
ADDRESS BY 0. F. CHASE AT SYLVAN PARK,
Aug., 1913.
Relatives and Friends:
We had the pleasure of attending the Connelly Reunion
last year on August 31 at Ludlow and participating in the
unbounded hospitality of James Wales and Wm. Connelly,
assisted by their wives and families. We wrote a short
account at the time which was published in the Jamestown
Journal. The report did not have to be put on ice to keep
over one year, historic matters unlike perishable fruit but
like wine, the longer they are kept over, the better they
become. For the benefit of some who may not have seen
it — and at the risk of repetition of what may be offered
by the secretary or others — I will read:
From the report you will observe that I was chosen his-
torian for this occasion. I am frank to confess that the
material I may have had to offer for your entertainment
as history or genealogy would have been sadly lacking had
it not been for some items furnished me by Mrs. Ettie
Smith, daughter of Melissa Knight and grand-daughter of
my Aunt Susan McGee Smith, who was the daughter of
Isaac Connelly 2d. These records were given her by her
grandmother Susan Connelly McGee Smith, excerps of
which I take pleasure in giving to you. I have the same
picture here of Isaac Connelly, 1st which was exhibited at
the reunion one year ago. Of his ancestors I have no rec-
ord — I am sure there is no Connelly here that is not more
than willing to claim the original of the handsome benign
face exhibited in this picture as their far away progenitor.
On the tombstone of Isaac Connelly 1st, buried at Stewarts
Run, there is engraved the following:
"Tribute of respect," to the memory of Isaac Connelly
who departed this life July 4th, 1823, aged 76 years, an
Isrealite indeed, in whom there was no guile. From the
above record we learn that he was born in 1747. The bio-
graphy continues, he was married three times; the first
354 SlGGINS AND
wife had one child which lived only to be a young woman.
The second wife, whose name was Rebecca Robinson, had
three girls and two boys, namely: William, Rebecca, Isaac,
Susan and HANNAH. William married Elizabeth Allen-
der. Rebacca married James Allender. Isaac married
Sarah Siggins. Susan married John Hunter and Hannah
married Thomas Dawson. His third wife was Rachel
Hughey; they had six children: Eliza, Jane, Robert, Sarah,
Nancy, Mary and George. Eliza married Parkhurst Cope-
land and Jane was a maiden lady — Robert married Miss
Coffingwood. George Married Margaret Lourie. Sarah
married William Aldrich. She had two children: Cordelia
and Isaac. Sarah married again to George McAuley.
Hannah Dawson had thirteen children, namely: Hemphill,
John, William, Isaac, James, Asbury, Rebecca, Susan,
Rachael, Harriet, Hannah and Caroline. Hemphill married
Maria Grandin. John married Emiline Ross. Isaac mar-
ried Irene Ross. Rebecca married John Siggins. Susan
married Thomas Haworth. Betsy married Joseph Allender.
Rachael married George Siggins. Hannah and Caroline
were maiden ladies. I now copy the biography of Isaac
Connelly 2d who was the brother as before mentioned of
William, Rebecca, Susan and Hannah and whose half broth-
ers and sisters were Eliza, Jane, Robert, Nancy, Mary,
George and Sarah.
My grandfather, Isaac Connelly, was born near Phila-
delphia (as his father Isaac was the original of the pic-
ture.) He was in business at Bellefonte, Center County,
as indicated by the ledger exhibited by Mrs. DeRocher
last year is probably at that place.) He had little educa-
tion; what he did have he received from his brother, Wil-
liam. He married at the age of 27 years Sarah Siggins,
Oct. 1st, 1807, and settled at Pithole. From there he moved
to Youngsville. He was a devoted Christian and member
of the M. E. Church. He lived at Youngsville 21 years.
From there he moved to Cobham. He was associate Judge
of Warren County for 23 years. He was a very good look-
ing man, rather robust, had dark hair and eyes — I might
add to this a little personal remembrance of my own.
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Shortly after my father moved to a farm near Kiantone I
think it was about 1854, I rode down to Cobham on a cold
winter day with James Clark, a runaway slave who claimed
to be the Harris of Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin — Isaac
Connelly who was an abolitionist entertained him and Clark
gave a lecture at Tidioute, Pa. He had eleven children —
Sarah, Susan, Rebecca, Fletcher, Polly, Rachael and Whit-
field. Sarah married Erastus Rouse. Susan married Perry
McGee — afterward Peter Smith. Rebecca married Edward
Patterson. Fletcher married Aurelia Trask. Rachael mar-
ried Luke Smith, afterward James Russell. Polly married
Oliver Chase. Whitfield married Lucy Rowley. All of this
family are not now living. I have not sufficient data to con-
tinue the history of Isaac Connely's family. No doubt the
various members might be able to furnish it.
I regret that I have not been able to get as complete a
record of the other members of the family of Isaac 1st as
I have given of Isaac the 2nd.
No doubt there are many of the descendants of William
Connelly present. Rev. William Connelly, as you knew,
lived at Franklin and was a very eloquent pioneer Meth-
odist minister. We copy from the letter of Rev. J. H.
Vance, which we read at last year's reunion which will bear
repetition, he said: "When I knew the Rev. Mr. Connelly
he was a very old man but a very interesting talker; he
held the attention of the whole company an hour at a time
with reminiscences of early experiences as a Methodist
preacher. We learn that he died at the home of his grand
daughter, Mrs. John S. McCalmont, at Franklin in 1872,
aged 97 years.
Looking upon the portrait of our extraordinarily hand-
some ancestor and then upon the face of his male descend-
ants, we are almost persuaded to believe that the Darwinian
theory of evolution has slipped a cog, but then the only
alternative for us to believe is that his good looks and gen-
tility are descended to the female side and the ladies are
his inheritors, but this involves a philosophic question not
pertinent to this occasion. At all events we are all proud
of this ancestor.
356 SlGGINS AND
THE CONNELLY FAMILY.
"The Connelly family, we are told, is descended from
Milesius, King of Spain, through the line of his son Here-
mon. The founder of the family was Eogan, ancestor of
the Northern Hy Nial of the Nine Hostages, King of Ire-
land, A. D. 379. The ancient name was Conally and signi-
fies "A Light." The name is derived from the ancient
Milesian name O'CONGHALAIGH. The Connelley family
is a southern one in America. It has been our boast and
pride that it was one of the first families in the ancient
and honorable commonwealth of South Carolina. Thomas
Connelly and his brother Edmund, and perhaps two other
brothers, John and Henry, came from County Armagh,
Ireland, and settled at Old Albemarle Point about the year
1689. This settlement was moved later, to become Charles-
town in the colony of South Carolina ; it is now the metrop-
olis of the state of South Carolina, and the name is written
Charleston. These brothers were men of fortune and af-
fairs, and they obtained large grants of land from the pro-
prietors of the colonies, one such grant embracing, it is
said, a portion of the present site of the city of Charleston.
It is said, too, that they never parted with the title to this
tract. They engaged in town building and the purchase,
subdivision and sale of large tracts of land in various col-
onies, but principally in Virginia and the Carolinas. They
induced many Germans to move from Pennsylvania to the
Carolinas, so the tradition in our family says, a colony of
whom they settled on their lands near the present site of
Camden, South Carolina. In this business their descend-
ants were also engaged, and it became necessary for them
to send members of the family to live in different parts of
the country, especially in Pennsylvania and Virginia, to
prevail on persons to migrate to the lands and towns in the
Carolinas. And they engaged largely in traffic and mer-
chandising by sea, owning vessels that plied between the
different colonies and which visited the West India Islands.
They also traded with the Creek and Cherokee Indians.
In the Revolution the Connelleys fought in the patriot arm-
EN DieU EST TOUT
HAT DEI VOLUNTAS
Arms Of The Connelly Family
Other Families 357
ies of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Pennsylvania. They
served under Washington, Green, Morgan, Gates, Howard
(of Maryland), Lincoln, and Charles Cotesworth Pickney.
At the close of the Revolution many of them moved to the
West, and the family became still more widely scattered.
There is a belt of them extending across Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois and Central Missouri. Some members of the family
settled at a very early day in the wilderness of Northwest-
ern Pennsylvania, and many of their descendants are found
there.
(From the Founding of Harman's Station)
by William Elsey Connelley."
"To which is affixed a brief account of the Connelly family
and some of its collateral and related families in America."
Mr. Connelly states that: "The Clan MacAlpine is one
of the oldest families in the world with an authentic history.
A daughter of this old clan — Edith MacAlpine — is the
maternal ancestor of all the Connellys, and many other
eastern Kentucky families. Captain Henry Connelly mar-
ried Ann MacGregor probably as early as 1774, and there-
fore claim descent from the most famouns clan in Scot-
land, that of MacGregor. The clan have a society, which
was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in June, 1909, and
an invitation to "All in America who have the MacGregor
blood in their veins" to meet at the National Hotel, Wash-
ington, D. C, Oct. 8 and 9, 1909, to effect a permanent
organization of MacGregor descendants, and doubtless the
name of Connelly, in its various spelling, may be found
many times repeated upon the list of members.
"While there's leaves in the forest, and foam on the
river,
MacGregor, despite them, shall flourish forever."
"The Connelley family was founded by emigrants from
County Armagh, Ireland, who settled in South Carolina
in 1689, being among the founders of Charleston. They
were in all the patriotic movements to secure the independ-
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358 SlGGINS AND
ence of America, Henry Connelley having been a captain of
cavalry in the War of the Revolution in North Carolina.
He was appointed by Governor Burke to raise a special com-
pany to keep down Fanning, the Tory, and served five
years. He was in the battle of Cowpens, Charlotte, Guilford
Courthouse, and with General Greene in his masterly re-
treat beyond the Dan River. At the close of the Revolu-
tion he moved to Eastern Kentucky with his family. His
descendants write their name in various forms, as is the
case with many Colonial families. He was the great-great-
grandfather of William Elsey Connelly. William Elsey
Connelly was born in Johnson County, Kentucky, March 15,
1855. His parents were Constantine Conley, Jr., and Re-
becca J. (McCarty) Conley. He came to Kansas, arriv-
ing in Wyondotte County, April 22, 1881. Constantine
Conley, Jr., was a soldier in the Union Army in the Civil
War, volunteering from Magoffin County, Kentucky. He
was in the Fourteenth Kentucky Mounted Infantry. Wil-
liam Elsey Connelley was the eldest child, a short sketch
of whom may be found in Mackenzie's "Colonial Families
of America."
(A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, by W. E.
Connelley, Vol. V, p. 2731).
"The Connelly family is a southern one in America. It
has been their boast and our pride that it was one of the
first families in the ancient and honorable Commonwealth
of South Carolina.
THOMAS CONNELLY and his brother, Edmund, and
perhaps two other brothers, John and Henry, came from
County Armagh, Ireland, and settled at Old Albermarl
Point about the year 1689. This settlement was moved later
to become Charlestown, in the colony of South Carolina,
it is now the metropolis of the state of South Carolina and
the name is written Charleston "
Thomas Connelly 1 followed in the steps of his fore-
fathers and dealt in lands and town sites. In this business
he was often in Pennsylvania where, it seems he must have
Other Families 359
settled, as others of his family had done. Whom he mar-
ried is not known, but in the light of recent reliable infor-
mation, it must have been a Pennsylvania Dutch woman,
Their son, Captain Henry Connelly, married Ann Mac-
Gregor, dau. of Archibald and Edith (Mac Alpine) Mc-
Gregor. He was born May 2, 1752 ; she was born Feb. 14,
1756.
Their son, Thomas Connelley 3 was born Jan. 25, 1777;
married Susan Joynes.
Their son, Henry Connelley 4 ; married 1830, Rebecca
Blair.
Their son, Constantine Connelley 3 ; born December 5,
1831; married June 9, 1854, Rebecca Jane McCarty.
Their son, William Elsey Connelley 6 , was born on the
Wolf Pen Branch, Johnson County, Kentucky, March 15,
1855.
For further data regarding this Connelley Family, see
"The founding of Harman's Station," by William Elsy
Connelly, to which is affixed a brief account of the Con-
nelley family and some of its collateral and related fam-
ilies in America.
THE CLAN Mac ALPINE.
"The Clan Mac Alpine is believed to be the most ancient
clan of the Highlands of Scotland. There is an old Gaelic
tradition which says the origin of the clan was contem-
porary with the formation of hillocks and streams. The
McAlpines are descended from the ancient people whose
successors became kings of Scotland for twenty-five genera-
tions. The war cry of the clan is "Remember the death of
Alpin," alluding to the murder of King Alpin by Brudus
after the Picts defeated the Scots near Dundee in the year
735. The seat of the ancient clan was in Argyllshire. The
360 SlGGINS AND
Clan Mac Alpine is one of the oldest families in the world
with an authentic history. A daughter of this old clan —
EDITH MacALPINE— is the maternal ancestor of all the
Connelys, Conleys, Connelleys and many other Eastern
Kentucky families."
(The Founding of Harman's Station," by Wm. Elsey
Connelley.)
THE CLAN Mac GREGOR.
"Archibald Mac Gregor, of the Clan Mac Gregor, High-
lands of Scotland, espoused the cause of Charles Edward,
the young Pretender, in 1745, as did his clan and his
country. He was a young man of fine stature and immense
physical strength. His clan was not in the battle of
Culloden Moore, having been stationed at another point, so
it is said in family traditions, but he had been sent to the
commander of the Pretender forces with despatches, and
so was on that disastrous field. There he was dreadfully
wounded, being left on the gory field for dead and his body
stripped by the Royalist looters. He, however, revived
and with great difficulty and much suffering reached his
own country. There he was concealed until he had re-
covered somewhat from his wounds, when he succeeded in
escaping to the Colony of North Carolina, where so many
of his countrymen were then living. There he married
Edith MacAlpine, the daughter of a Highlander who had
been in the battle of Culloden Moore, and who had with
great difficulty escaped with his family to America. Mc-
Gregor never fully recovered from his wounds. His daugh-
ter Ann was born February 14, 1756, and some two years
later he died. His widow married a Scotchman named
Langley. Captain Henry Connelly married Ann Mac-
Gregor.
(The Founding of Harman's Station, by Wm. Elsey
Connelley.)
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CONNELY MARRIAGE RECORDS.
Christ Church, Philadelphia, Vol. Ill, Pa. Archives,
2nd Series.
1755, Oct. 27. Connelly, Margaret and William Nichol-
son.
1762, Oct. 14. Connely, Sarah and Daniel Rees.
Note: In an account of William Connely,
who died in 1871, it is stated he
passed through Franklin, or Fort
Venango, as one of a surveying party
with his Uncle Rees in 1795.
1798, Jan. 20. Connelly, Mary and William Moore.
1803, May 11. Connelly, Jane and John Riker.
1767, Apr. 22. Connell, William and Sarah Richards.
(This may be a misprint, William Con-
nely, father of Judge Isaac Connely, was
probably married at about this date.)
Old Swedes' Church.
1767, Dec. 7. Conneley, William and Mertha Cox.
(Or this may be the ancestor, as the name
was often spelled Connely, Connelly and
Conneley.)
1779, May 8. Conneley, Robert and Mary Campbell.
1799, Nov. 28. Connelly, Robert and Ann Melly.
(One of these may have been the Robert
Spoken of by Rev. David Kinnear.)
1763, Mar. 2. Conneley, Dennis and Mary Hilkenny.
362 SlGGINS AND
1767. Oct. 5. Conneley, Joseph and Elizabeth Botte-
worth.
1758, Mar. 23. Connelly, Margaret and Walter Berry.
1755, Sept. 14 Connoly, Neal and Mary Macumtire.
1782, July 31. Conoly, Mary and George Gilleckan.
1766, Sept. 9. Garrigues, Rebecca and Henry Robinson.
(She m. 2nd. Oct. 26, 1776, Isaac Con-
nely, Ed.)
1776, Oct. 7. Robeson, Margaret and John Robinson.
(Prob. the 2nd wife of Isaac Connely, Ed.)
Vol. II, 2nd Series Pa. Archives. Marriage Licenses.
1773, Apr. 26. Connoly, Robert and Bridget Dunn.
1767, Sept. 1. Connolly, Robert and Ann McMullan.
1773, July 19. Connoly, Rebecca and Abraham Robinson.
1772, Feb. 15. Connoly, Isabella and John McAimoyei.
1765, Oct. 18. Connody, (prob. Connly, Ed), and Hannah
Pastorius.
Other Families 363
DAWSON FAMILY.
1091. JAMES DAWSON 1 , b. 1753, in Ireland; d. March
13, 1814, agd. 61 ; m.
Elizabeth (Dawson?) ; b. 1758, in Ireland; d. No-
vember 25, 1829, at Stewarts Run, Venango
County, Pa., agd 71. Their children were:
1092.* .i PHEOBE Dawson 2 , b. in Ireland 1770; m.
June 27, 1821,
George Siggins (No. 4) ; she was his second wife,
she died September 30, 1860, in Venango Coun-
ty, Pa., agd. 90 years.
1093. ii. MARTHA Dawson 2 , b. and died in Ireland.
1094. iii. ELIZABETH Dawson 2 , b. and died in Ireland.
1095.* iv. THOMAS Dawson 2 , b. in Ireland, February
15, 1776; m.
Hannah Connely (No. 881).
1096. v. REBECCA Dawson 2 , b. in Ireland; m.
James Allender (No. 1193).
1097.* vi. JAMES Dawson 2 , b. in Ireland.
1098.* vii. JOHN Dawson 2 , b. March 14, 1793, in Ireland ;
m. Nancy Lamb, b. near Bellefonte, Pa.
1099. viii. MARY Dawson ; married
Alexander McElhany.
On the passage to America, the ship in which he sailed
was attacked by pirates and some of the passengers were
captured. Alexander's friends thinking to save him from a
similar fate, put him to bed in the guise of a very old
woman. He must have impersonated the character well, for
the ruse saved his life.
364 SlGGINS AND
(1095) Thomas Dawson 2 , b. February 15, 1776; d. No-
vember 27, 1851, is buried at Asbury Chapel, Venango
County, Pa. He served in the war of 1812; m.
Hannah Connely (No. 956), b. February 22, 1784; d. at
Ripley Chautauqua County, N. Y., January 5, 1871. Their
children were :
1100.* i. JOSEPH Hemphill Dawson', m. 1st.
Maria DeCamp Grandin; m. 2nd.
Marianne Stephenson Rohrer.
1101. ii. REBECCA Dawson 3 , b. February 17, 1807;
d. January 14, 1867 ; m.
John Siggins (No. 49).
1102* iii. JAMES Guest Dawson 3 , b. June 8, 1806, m.
Nancy Dale, b. October 25, 1813.
1103.* iv. SUSANNAH Dawson 3 , b. February 10, 1810;
m. Thomas Haworth.
1104. v. ISAAC Uans Dawson 3 , b. November 2, 1811 ;
d. July 27, 1886 ; m.
Irene Ross, of Northeast Pa. No children.
1105.* vi. ELIZABETH Dawson 3 , b. March 10, 1814; m.
Joseph Allender (No. 1191).
1106. vii. WILLIAM Dawson 3 , b. October 5, 1815; d.
January 11, 1853; m.
Sarah ; they had one son :
1107. ORION Dawson 4 .
1108.* viii. JOHN Wesley Dawson 3 , b. September 14,
1817, at Brush Valley, Pa.; m.
Emaline Ross, of Northeast, Pa.
1109. ix. ASBURY DAWSON 3 , b. April 9, 1819, at
Stewarts Run, Pa. ; d. May 4, 1904 ; m. February
23, 1854, at Enterprise, Pa.
Delia A. Spencer, they settled at Pleasantville,
Pa. He lived for a time in Fredonia, N. Y. ;
was a merchant and farmer; member of the
Other Families 365
Methodist Church, but later removed to School-
craft, Michigan. Their children were :
1110. i. WILLIS Dawson 4 , who died aged two
years.
1111. ii. MARY Dawson 4 , m. A. A. Cox, of Santa
Cruz, Calif.
1112. iii. LILLIAN Dawson 4 , m. Almstead, of
Schoolcraft, Mich.
1113.* x. RACHEL Dawson 3 , b. March 25, 1821; m.
George Simpson Siggins (No. 53).
1114.* xi. HARRIET Dawson 3 , b. May 31, 1823; m.
Hugh McCullough.
1115. xii. HANNAH Dawson 3 , b. July 31, 1825; d. Jan-
uary 10, 1900. at Erie, Ja, ; not married.
1116. xiii. CAROLINE Dawson 3 , b. February 29, 1228;
d. February 17, 1894, at the home of her brother
Joseph Hemphill Dawson ; not married.
(1097). James Dawson 2 , b. in Ireland; married, but
name of wife unknown. Their children were :
1117. i. JOHN Dawson 3 , m.
Susan Smith, a sister of Clinton Smith. Their
children were:
1118. i. GEORGE Smith Dawson 4 .
1119. ii. A son who was accidentally shot and died
aged 13.
1120. ii. FLETCHER Dawson 3 , was in the Civil War
and died in the service.
1121. iii. NANCY Dawson 3 , m. and removed to Jamaica
Plains, L. I.
1122. iv. ISABELLE Dawson 3 , m. ; lived in Chautauqua
Co., N. Y.
366 SlGGINS AND
(1098). John Dawson 2 , b. in Ireland, March 14, 1793;
died in Venango Co., Pa., July 1, 1893; m.
Nancy Lamb, b. near Bellefonte, Pa., April, 1802; d.
October, 1889. Their children were:
1123. i. Dawson 3 , b. October, 1822; m.
Fagundas, they had several children,
all of whom, except two, died prior to 1912.
1124. ii. JOHN G. Dawson 3 , b. November 1828; d. at
Brush Valley, Pa., in July, 1831.
1125. iii. JAMES C. Dawson 3 , b. May, 1832; d. Sep-
tember, 1842.
1126. iv. EMILY Dawson 3 , b. May, 1836 ; m. November
2, 1864.
P. F. Good, b. 1836, in Indiana County, Pa. Their
children were:
1127. i. WILLIS E. Good 1 , b. August 23, 1865.
1128. ii. SAMUEL D. Good 4 , b. January 3, 1868.
They were living in 1912 in Ashtabula, Ohio.
1100.* i JOSEPH HEMPHILL DAWSON 3 , a farmer in
Venango Co., Pa.; m. Nov. 4, 1805; d. March
10, 1870, in Ripley, N. Y., m. 1st December 25,
1832.
Maria DeCamp Grandin, b. Jan. 21, 1806, in New Jersey ;
dau. of (No. 1165) ; d. March 1st, 1841, in Venango Co., Pa.;
he m. 2nd :
Marrianne Stephenson Rohrer, of Kittaning, Pa., b. Sept.
12, 1803, in Gettysburg, Pa., d. Sept. 10, 1872. Children by
1st marriage:
1129. i. MELVINA Clarissa Dawson 4 , b. December 23,
1833 ; d. February 22, 1900, and was buried in
Tidioute. She taught school for several years
and served as assistant to the postmaster at
Tidioute ; was a member of the Methodist church
and a strong advocate of the cause of temper-
ance; m. January 26, 1882:
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Rev. George Reeser, of the Erie Conference; b.
Aug. 28, 1815 ; in Northumberland County, Pa. ;
d. October 30, 1896, in Tidioute, Pa.
1130. ii. HANNAH Emeline Dawson 4 , b. July 8, 1836;
d. October 10, 1848, in Venango County, Pa.
1131. iii. THOMAS Wurtz Dawson 4 , b. Aug. 10, 1838;
d. December 6, 1911, in Tampa, Fla.
1132. iv. MARIA Harriet Dawson 4 , b. November 23,
1840; d. December 21, 1912, in Tidioute, Pa.
She was a faithful member of the Methodist
Church. Children by 2nd marriage.
1133. v. RACHEL Josephine Dawson 4 , b. February 1,
1848 ; d. February 16, 1852.
This family were all Methodists.
(1102). JAMES GUEST DAWSON 3 , b. June 18, 1806,
in Harmony Township ; d. February 20, 1855 ; m.
Nancy Dale, b. October 25, 1813, (dau. of Jesse and Mary
(Lamb) Dale.) Their children were:
1134. i. WILLIAM S. Dawson 4 , b. May 15, 1834 ; d. in
Washington, D. C.
1135. ii. MARY DAWSON 4 , lived with her two broth-
ers on the old homestead.
1136. iii. CAROLINE Dawson 4 , married
Adam Knapp, they had 4 children, lived in War-
ren Co., Pa.
1137. iv. THOMAS Dawson 4 , b. June 9, 1841 ; moved to
Iowa in 1865, and died there, leaving 4 children.
1138. v. ISAAC Dawson 4 , b. November 30, 1843; a
farmer in Warren County, Pa., has 9 children.
1139.* vi. WALTER R. Dawson 4 , a twin of Jesse D. Daw-
son. He was a well known and prosperous
farmer, living on the old homestead consisting
of about 300 acres ; he is a staunch democrat, as
368 SlGGINS AND
are his brothers, though he has never sought of-
fice, he has served as collector, constable and
pathmaster in his township acceptably and
faithfully.
1140. JESSE D. Dawson 4 , b. May 1, 1848; resides
on the old homested. Served as road commis-
sioner for nine consecutive years, was also col-
lector and pathmaster for the Borough of
Tidioute.
1141. vii. FRANCES Dawson 4 , married
James York of Oil City, Pa., 6 children.
1142. viii. EMMA Dawson 4 , married
J. S. Grove, of Tionesta, Pa., 2 children.
(1103) SUSANNAH DAWSON 3 , b. Feb. 10, 1810; d.
May 24, 1891, at Stewart's Run; m.
Thomas Haworth. Their children were:
1143. i. BRONSON Haworth 4 , named for Rev. Bron-
son.
LYMAN Haworth 4 .
DAWSON Haworth 4 .
MARY Jane Haworth 4 , d. at age of 16.
ASBURY Haworth 4 , named for Bishop Asbury
STELLA Haworth 4 .
EMALINE Haworth 4 .
HANNAH Haworth 4 .
PLUMMER Haworth 4 .
SERREL Haworth 4 , a daughter.
(1108) JOHN WESLEY DAWSON % b. October 5, 1917 ;
d. August 8, 1890; m.
Emaline Ross: Their children were.
1144.
n.
1145.
iii.
1146.
iv.
1147.
v.
1148.
vi.
1149.
vii.
1150.
viii.
1151.
ix.
1152.
X.
Other Families 369
1153. i. WILLIAM Ross Dawson 4 , b. December 18, 1844 ;
d. March 17, 1916, in Tidioute, Pa.; m. 1875.
Lavonia Richardson, dau. of Caleb, who was a
brother of Cyrus Richardson, who married Mar-
garet Jane Siggins (56). Their children were :
1154. i. JOSEPHINE G. Dawson 5 , m. Dr. Paul J.
Opperman, of El Ora, Mexico, formerly of
Cleveland, Ohio.
1155. ii. MARY Dawson 5 , m. Wallace R. Brown,
Olean, N. Y.
1156. ii. OLIVE Dawson 4 , m.
Rev. Frederick Fair, a M. E. Minister of Pleasant-
ville, Pa.
1157. iii. FLETCHER Dawson 4 , named for Rev. John
Fletcher, of Eng., a helper of Rev. John Wesley.
1158. iv. ELIZABETH Dawson 4 , m.
Sterling.
1159. v. HENRY Dawson 4 , lives in New York City.
(1114) HARRIET DAWSON 3 , b. May 31, 1823; d.
August 29, 1896 ; m.
Hugh McCullough, (a Scotchman and graduate of Edin-
burg University). Their children were:
1160. i. HANNAH McCullough 4 , m.
James Siggins (55).
1161. ii. WILLIAM McCullough 4 .
1162. iii. MARY McCullough 4 .
1163. iv. HARRIET McCullough 4 .
1164. v. HUGH McCullough 4 .
(1153) WILLIAM ROSS DAWSON, son of John and
Emeline Ross Dawson, was born on his father's farm, near
Neiltown, Forest Co., Pa., Dec. 18, 1844. Followed the
life of a farmer until his eighteenth year when he answered
370 SlGGINS AND
the call to arms and entered the 121st Pennsylvania Volun-
teers. Was in the battles of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg
and the Wilderness engagement. Was severely wounded
and sent to the hospital at Philadelphia where he was
obliged to remain almost a year ; he was then given a cler-
ical position at Pittsburg, which he filled until the close of
the war, after which he returned to Tidioute, Pa., where
most of his life was spent. He followed the mercantile
business. In 1866 he was appointed postmaster of Tidioute,
Pa. He married Lovina Richardson in 1875, he died in
March, 1916. His sisters, Mrs. Sterling of Minneapolis,
Mrs. Fair of Pleasantville and a brother Henry Dawson
of New York, survived him.
GRANDIN FAMILY.
1165. SAMUEL GRANDIN 1 , born on an island along the
coast of France, came to America, settled in and
passed nearly all his life in New Jersey; died
1787, on an island near New York harbor; his
three sons were educated, one for the legal pro-
fession, one for the ministry, the other for the
mercantile business; the last:
1166. JOHN GRANDIN 2 , b. 1775, in Morris County, New
Jersey; d. 1842; in Pleasantville, Venango
County, Pa. ; he gave up the mercantile business
and taught school, later retired ; m. in New Jer-
sey, about 1798-9.
Catherine Hunt, a native of Sussex County, N. J.
Their children were:
1167. i. MARIA De CAMP GRANDIN 3 , m. December
25, 1832.
Joseph Hempbill Dawson (1100).
1168. ii. SAMUEL GRANDIN 3 , b. October 15, 1800, in
Sussex County, N. J.; d. January 28, 1888, in
Tidioute, Pa.; he worked as a tailor several
Other Families 371
years ; on coming to Tidioute he engaged in the
lumber trade, rafting timber down the Alle-
gheny, amassed a fortune, persistently declined
to hold any political office, was a member of
the Universalist Church, helped in the develop-
ment of educational institutions, was one of the
most generous and enterprising pioneer settlers
of Tidioute; m. October 4, 1832.
Sarah Ann Henry, b. Oct. 12, 1807 ; d. May 11, 1852
Their children were:
1169. i. MORRIS Worts Grandin 4 , b. Oct. 10,
1833; d. Sept. 4, 1834.
1170. ii. STEPHEN Girard Grandin 4 , b. Apr. 4,
1835; was drowned July 24, 1851.
1171. iii. JOHN Livingston Grandin 4 , b. Dec. 26,
1836.
1172.* iv. WILLIAM J. Grandin 4 , b. Aug. 26, 1838;
m. 1st, 1863.
Mary Breunesholtz ; m. 2nd, 1881.
Annie Merkel.
1173. v. ELIJAH Bishop Grandin 4 , b. Nov. 23,
1840; m. Emma P. Williams.
1174. vi. MARIA J. Grandin 4 , b. Feb. 21, 1841 ; m.
Adnah Neyhart, of Ithica, N. Y.
1175. vii. EMMA Ann Grandin 4 , b. June 29, 1849;
d. Aug. 17, 1867, in Jamestown, N. Y.
(1172) WILLIAM J. GRANDIN 4 , by first marriage
had:
1176. i. FRANK Grandin 1 , deceased.
1117. ii. CHARLES Grandin 3 , now president Mayville
Bank, Mayville, N. D.
1178. iii. WILLIAM Grandin, Jr. 5 .
372 SlGGINS AND
1179. iv. MARY L. Grandin 5 .
By second marriage he had :
1180. v. GUY M. Grandin 5 .
1181. vi. ANNIE Grandin 5 .
THE GRANDIN BROS., John L., William J. and Elijah
B., established the Grandin Bros.' Bank of Tidioute, and
were largely interested in the lumber and oil trade, also
invested in western lands, including 38000 acres which is
largely a grain farm; also one of 28000 acres of grazing
land in Dakota.
ELIJAH BISHOP GRANDIN.
(1173) Elijah Bishop Grandin was born in Tidioute,
Pennsylvania, Nov. 23, 1840. His father, Samuel Grandin,
was a native of New Jersey, but located in Pleasantville,
Venango County, in 1822 and removed to Tidioute in 1840,
where he engaged in the lumber and mercantile business.
His sons were all enthusiastic and successful business men
and early in life invested in oil properties and they were
pioneers in opening farming land in North Dakota. Their
immense holdings in these and other interests called for
keen foresight and business tact which the Grandin men
possessed to a remarkable degree.
Of Elijah Bishop Grandin, it has been truthfully said
that he was thorough and painstaking, possessed of broad
vision and executive ability seldom excelled. Judged by
many standards of excellence, he was a great and good
man. Those who knew him best ever found him a wise
counselor and helpful friend.
John B. White, one of his closest friends and life time
business partner, said of him : "He was the best and most
logical business man that I ever knew. His life was a
very useful one ; he was ever helpful to young men start-
ELIJAH B. GRANDIN.
(1173)
Other Families 373
ing out in business. The world is better for his having
lived in it."
He made his home in Washington, D. C, for many years,
once a year he returned to Tidioute where his happiest
hours were spent among early associates and life long
friends. He died in Washington, December 3rd, 1917, and
was buried in Tidioute, Pa.
1182. JOSEPH ALLENDER 1 , b. in Ireland 1747; d. Aug.
6, 1797 ; came to America before the Revolution-
ary War, and settled in Pennsylvania. His
wife was:
Ann Their children were:
1183.* i. ALEXANDER Allender 2 , b. Sept. 26, 1770; m.
Nancy Biggs.
1184. ii. ELIZABETH Allender 2 , b. Feb. 27, 1774; m.
William Connely (876).
fl85. iii. JAMES Allender 2 , b. March 23, 1776, in Cen-
ter County, Pa., m.
Rebecca Connely (880).
1186. iv. MARTHA Allender 2 , b. Jan. 2, 1778, in Center
County, Pa.
1187. v. MARY Allender-, b. Jan. 22, 1784, in Center
County, Pa. ; m. September 28, 1799.
William Kinnear', Andrew 5 , William-, James 1 .
1188. vi. JOSEPH Allender 2 , b. April 22, 1786; d. June
25, 1798.
1189. vii. WILLIAM Allender 2 , b. Dec. 22, 1788.
1190. viii. ANN Allender 2 , b. Feb. 11, 1792; m.
Samuel Magee. (See Magee family.)
(1183) ALEXANDER ALLENDER 2 , b. Sept. 26,
1770, in South East, Pa.; d. May 31, 1824; m. in Center
County, Pa.
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374 SlGGINS AND
Nancy Biggs, b. Sept. 27, 1778, in London, Eng. (came
to America with her parents in 1785) ; d. 1858. Their
children were:
1191.* i. JOSEPH Allender s , b. Jan. 13, 1802; m.
Elizabeth Dawson (1105).
1192. ii. ALEXANDER Allender ; .
1193. iii. JAMES Allender"; m.
Rebecca Dawson (1096).
1194. iv. MARY Ann Allender.
(1191) JOSEPH ALLENDER : , b. January 13, 1802; d.
June 25, 1878; m.
Elizabeth Dawson (1105) ; b. March 16, 1814, at Stewarts
Run, Pa.; d. Nov. 23, 1902. Grandmother Allender, as she
was familiarly known, spent the last years of her life with
her daughter, Hannah Siggins ; loved and respected by all
who knew her. Their children were:
1195. i. JOHN B. Allender 4 , of Cleveland, Ohio, b. Apr.
10, 1840; d. February 11, 1910; he lost an arm
in the Civil War; enlisted in 1862 in Co. A, 121
Regiment Penna. Volunteers; his two sons,
Ralph and Jay, survived him; m. Sept., 1866.
Anna I. Rorer.
1196. ii. HANNAH Malinda Allender 4 , b. July 2,
1834; m.
William Young Siggins (144).
1197.* iii. ALFRED A. Allender*, Dec. 13, 1836; d. May
1895; m.
Margaret Marianna Siggins (153).
1198. iv. THOMAS Whitfield Allender 4 , b. Feb. 26,
1838; d. October 20, 1900, in East Hickory,
Pa.; m.
Jane Range, dau. of Jacob Range.
Other Families 375
1199. v. RACHEL Elizabeth Attended, b. June 2, 1842;
m. 1st,
McGrory; m. 2nd,
James Hunter ( ) of Mill Village, Pa.
1200. vi. EMERY Allender 4 , b. Sept. 20, 1845; named
for Bishop Emery; d. February 29, 1848.
1201. vii. CLARENCE Allender 4 , b. May 20, 1850; d.
May 13, 1862.
The old Allender home was burned about the time Clar-
ence Allender died, and the old family bible containing
the records of births, deaths and marriages was destroyed.
1202. LEONA MAY ALLENDER, daughter of No. 1197. ;
daughter of Alfred A. and Margaret M. (Sig-
gins) Allender; b. October 4, 1873; m. Decem-
ber 29, 1897.
Edgar Birchard, of Cambridge Springs, Pa.
Children :
1203. i. HAROLD L. Birchard 6 , b. December 23, 1898.
1204. ii. ANNE Naomi Birchard 6 , b. February 12, 1903.
1205. iii. S. AUTUMN Birchard 6 , b. August 15, 1907.
376 SlGGINS AND
THE MEAD FAMILY.
In the History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of
Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western
Vermont and Western Pennsylvania, by Spencer P. Mead,
L. L. B., may be found a complete history of this family
from which we extract the following:
In 1635 there arrived in Massachusetts on the ship
"Elizabeth" two brothers:
1206. GOODMAN (Gabriel) Mead, b. in England, 1587;
d. in Massachusetts March 12, 1666; aged 79; he
was the ancestor of the Mead family of Mass-
achusetts; his brother:
1207. WILLIAM MEAD 1 , followed the tide of emigration,
which at that time was toward the Connecticut
Valley, and became the ancestor of the Fairfield
County, Connecticut, Mead family; in 1641 he
was settled at Stamford, Connecticut. His wife
died in Stamford, September 16, 1657. No rec-
ord of his death has yet been found. Of his
children :
1208. JOHN MEAD 1 , b. about 1634 ; d February 5, 1699 ;
m. prob. 1657.
Hannah Potter, of Stamford; they removed in
1657 to Hempstead, Long Island, and in 1660
to Old Greenwich (now Sound Beach) Conn. In
1670 John Mead was propounded for a freeman
of Greenwich by the Assembly, and was a mem-
ber of the Assembly in 1679, 1680 and 1686. Of
his children:
1209. JONATHAN MEAD 3 , b. abt. 1665; d. 1727; m. abt.
1688.
Martha . Of his children:
Other Families
377
1210.
1211.'
12I2. S
1213.
1214. :!
1215.
1216.*
1217.
1218."
JONATHAN MEAD 4 , b. abt. 1689; he removed to
Nine Partners, Dutcess County, New York. Of
his children:
DARIUS MEAD\ b. in Greenwich, Conn., March
28, 1728; d. 1794; m.
Ruth Curtis, b. May 26, 1734 ; d. 1791 ; finally set-
tled at Meadville, Pa. Of his children:
GENL. DAVID Mead' 1
m. twice.
b. January 17, 1752;
ASHEL Mead'\ b. August 9, 1754; killed in the
Wyoming massacre in 1778.
JOHN Mead", b. July 22, 1756; m.
Katherine Foster.
i. RUTH Mead ,
Hugh Depree.
b. April 16, 1761 ; m.
v. DARIUS Mead 1 ', b. Dec. 6, 1764; m.
Ann Hoffman.
vi. BETSEY Mead ,; , b. June 1, 1669; m. 3 times.
vii. JOSEPH Mead'\ b. June 25, 1772; m.
Hannah Boone, a niece or cousin of Daniel Boone.
1219. viii. HANNAH Mead .
378 SlGGINS AND
DARIUS MEAD.
(1211) Darius Mead 5 , b. in Greenwich, Conn., March 28,
1728 ; was killed by the Indians, in Warren County, Pa., in
1794. The following account is from the History of War-
ren County.
"In 1793 Darius Mead, with his sons, David, John, Darius
and Joseph, and two daughters, emigrated from the Sus-
quehanna River in what is now known as Lycoming Coun-
ty, to the tract of land now embracing Meadville, from
whom it took its name.
By reason of the hostile demonstrations of the Indians
they removed to Franklin, where was a fort and United
States garrison.
The following spring while the father was plowing a
field, a party of three indians came stealthily and sudden-
ly upon him, seized and bound him hand and foot. They
took him about twenty miles westerly into the woods, where
they stopped to encamp for the night. While the Indians
were getting wood, Mead succeeded in extricating one of
his hands, and as one of the Indians was bending over
kindling the fire, Mead stepped up and drawing a large
hunting knife from the Indian's belt, plunged it into the
Indian's heart, the other two coming up a desperate en-
counter ensued, in which Mr. Mead was finally overpow-
ered, brutally murdered, and cut to pieces with tomahawks.
After the subsidence of the Indian troubles, David and
John Mead returned to Meadville; and in the spring of
1799, Joseph and Darius removed to Warren county with
their families, the former settling on Big Brokenstraw,
where Mead's Mill now stands about one mile west of
Youngsville; Darius located the farm more recently
owned by Capt. James Bonner; in a year or two, however,
Other Families 379
he joined his brother, and with him built a grist-mill and
two saw-mills ; this was the first gristmill in Warren coun-
ty, there being at that time no mill within a radius of thirty
miles.
Mead's mill, it has been said, was the Mecca to which
the population of a large district made regular pilgrimages
for supplies, in dry times many grists were brought forty
miles to this mill ; the inhabitants of Columbus brought their
grists in canoes.
Darius Mead 6 , was an acting justice for several years,
and was hospitable and social in his habits; he died in
1813, and was buried in the cemetery on the original John
Andrews farm ; after his death the mill came into the hands
of John Mead 7 , a nephew of Darius, who, with his brother
William came in 1807, to work in the mills of their
uncles Joseph and Darius.
In 1813, Joseph Mead removed to a farm on the Allegheny
River, three miles below Warren, including the island which
still bears his name, and passed the remainder of his life
there; he died in March, 1846; his widow, Hannah, died
on the 25th of February, 1856, at the age of seventy-seven
years and four months.
They were the parents of fourteen children, eleven of
whom were living at the time of the mother's death ; many
of the descendants of these hardy brothers are now living
in Brokenstraw Township, and are worthy of their noble
ancestry.
380 SlGGINS AND
WAR RECORD.
(1211) Darius Mead", 1728-1794. Served as a soldier in
the 10th Battalion, Lancaster county, Militia (3d. class) on
a tour of duty at Northumberland, 1781. He was killed by
the Indians in 1794, near Franklin, Pa.
(1214) John Mead", 1756-1819. Served as a private
soldier in the 10th Battalion, Lancaster County, Militia
(5th class), under Captain Andrew Stuart.
(1212) David Mead", 1752-1816. Served as a soldier in
the Revolutionary War, and also in the War of 1812 he ren-
dered important service and received the title of General.
John and David Mead, in 1788, established what is known
as "Mead's Trail," which commenced at the mouth of An-
derson's Creek, near Curwinsville, Clearfield County, Pa.,
and extended through Jefferson, Clarion, Venango and
Crawford counties to Meadville which was established by
David, John, Darius and Joseph Mead", sons of Darius and
Ruth (Curtis) Mead.
(Ref. Penn. Archives, 5th Series, pp. 1018-22. Mc-
Knights History of Northwestern Pa., pp. 459-60.)
(1212) GENERAL DAVID MEAD", of Crawford Coun-
ty, Pa.; b. January 17, 1752; at Hudson, N. Y. ; d. August
23, 1816; at Meadville, Pa.; m. 1st, 1774;
Agnes, dau. of John and Janet Wilson of Northumberland
County, Pa. She d. 1796; m. 2nd, 1796;
Janet, dau. of Robert Finney, she d. 1826. Children by
1st marriage :
1220. i. Mead 7 , d. young.
Other Families 381
1221. ii. WILLIAM Mead 7 , who settled in Moline, 111.,
and had a son David s , whose son George Mead",
served in the 19th Illinois Volunteers, Civil War,
and was killed in action.
1222. iii MARGARET Mead 7 , b. June 19, 1781; d.
June 19, 1829; m. May 21, 1799; Judge William
Moore.
1223. iv. Mead 7 , d. young.
1224. v. ELIZABETH Mead 7 , b. Nov. 19, 1786 ; d. July
14, 1811; m. abt. 1806,
Hon. Patrick Farrelly, b. in Ireland, came to
America in 1798; d. in 1826; Member of Con-
gress, 1820-1826; Children:
1225. i. DAVID M. Farrelly 8 , Member Pennsyl-
vania Bar; b. March 11, 1807; d. Dec. 15,
1890; m. Feb. 2, 1843,
ELIZABETH Mead s , b. Jan. 6, 1821 ; dau. of
Darius Mead 7 , she died January 9, 1894;
1226. ii. JOHN W. Farrelly 8 , b. 1809 ; d. Dec. 1860 ;
member of the Pennsylvania Bar, and was
a Member of Congress in 1846.
1227. vi. Mead 7 , d. young.
1228. vii. SARAH Mead 7 , b. 1789; cl. May 22, 1823; m.
Sept. 13, 1816;
Rev. James Satterfield. Children:
1229. i. REV. MEAD Satterfield*, died without
issue.
1230. ii. ELIZABETH Satterneld\ m.
Mathews, of New Lisbon, O.
1231. viii. Satterfield 7 , d. young.
1232. ix. DARIUS Mead 7 , b. September 30, 1791 ; D.
July 25, 1871; m. ,
Sarah Louge, b. May 22, 1792; d. January 18,
1872. Among their children were :
382 SlGGINS AND
1233. i. AGNES Mead 8 , m.
Robert Getty, res. Rock Rapids, la..
1234. ii. ELIZABETH Mead 8 , m.
David M. Farrelly.
1235. iii. JANE Mead 8 , m. James Spare, res. Ga-
lena, 111.
1236. iv. ELLEN Mead 8 , m. William J. Bole.
1237. v. CAROLINE Mead 8 , m. J. S. Cornell, no
issue.
1238. vi. DARIUS R. Mead 8 , removed to Chicago,
111.
1239. vii. HARRIET Mead 8 , m. Alex. McNamara.
By second marriage General David Mead, had:
1240. x. DAVID Mead 7 , d. unm. in 1812.
1241. xi. ROBERT Mead 7 , went west, d. in 1848.
1242. xii. CATHERINE Mead 7 , b. Sept. 14, 1801 ; m.
Lieut. P. Dunham.
1243. xiii. JANE Mead 7 , b. ; m.
Rev. William Hutchinson.
1244. xiv. MARIA Mead 7 , b. April 28, 1805 ; m.
William Gill.
1245. xv. ALEX. J. Mead 7 , b. Sept. 8, 1807 ; m.
Fanny Rich.
(1214) JOHN MEAD 6 , was in War of 1812. b. July
22, 1756; d. June 1819; m. Dec. 15, 1782;
Katherine Foster, b. 1759 ; d. 1843, dau. of Robert Foster.
Children :
1246.* i. WILLIAM Mead 7 , b. December 23, 1784; m.
Susan Davis.
1247.* ii. JOHN Mead 7 , b. August 28, 1786; m.
Sarah Hoffman.
Other Families 383
1248. iii. JOSEPH Mead 7 , m. Ann Carr.
1249. iv. ASHEL Mead 7 , m.
Susan Micker, and went to Missouri.
1250. v. POLLY Mead 7 , m.
John Camp, and went to Missouri.
1251. vi. CHAMBERS Mead 7 , b. July 15, 1800; d. 1883
m. 1st.,
Nancy Harris, and had 3 children; m. 2nd.
Hannah Sample, and had 8 children.
(1246) WILLIAM MEAD 7 , b December 23, 1784; m.
about 1807;
Susan Davis, b. March 1, 1784; dau. of Elijah and Desiah
(Little) Davis. Children:
1252.* i. JOHN Mead s , of Pittsfield, Pa. November 1,
1808 ; m. Mary Ransom.
1253.* ii. ELIZABETH Mead 8 , b. November 1, 1811 ; m.
Philo Gurnsey Belnap (see Belnap family). She
m. 2nd,
William Roney, her brother-in-law.
1254. iii. JULIA Ann Mead 8 , b. December 7, 1813;
m. 1st,
Mr. Cobb. m. 2nd.,
Dr. Luther Chamberlain.
1255. iv. RUTH Mead 8 , b. February 13, 1816; m.
William Roney, he m. 2nd.
Elizabeth (Mead) Belnap.
1256.* vo. ELIJAH D. Mead*, m. April 27, 1818; m. 1st.,
Polly Siggins. m. 2nd.,
Betsy Morgan, m. 3d.
Julia Leffingwell.
1257. vi. DRUSELA Mead 8 , b. October 31, 1820; m.
David Hazard.
384 SlGGINS AND
1258. vii SUSAN D. Mead*, b. February 27, 1823 ; m.
Hiram B. Waite.
1259. viii. MARY Ann Mead*, b. January 29, 1825; m.
Robert Doty.
(1247) JOHN MEAD, JR 7 ., rebuilt the Mead mills sev-
eral times, and finally sold the saw-mills to Mad. Alger and
the grist-mills to H. T. Marshall.
He married in 1809 Sallie Hoffman, and built his home on
a piece of land given to him by his father-in-law.
In 1814 he and John Garner bought the Mathew Young
tract of 400 acres, for $2,500 — this tract contained nearly
all the land now within the limits of the borough of Youngs-
ville.
(1247) John Mead, Jr. 7 , was in the War of 1812. (Had
a pension.) b. August 28, 1786; near Sunbury, Pa.; d. No-
vember 4, 1870 ; in Warren county, Pa. ; m. Oct. 12, 1809, in
Meadville, Pa.
Sallie Hoffman, she d. aged sixty-two years.
They had thirteen children :
He m. 2nd Sarah E. Ireland, who drew his pension.
1260. i. PHILIP Mead*, b. Sept. 15, 1810; m.
Nancy Siggins, b. Aug. 6, 1817.
1261.
ii.
ELIZA Mead*.
1262.
iii.
ELSA Mead*.
1263.
iv.
CHAMBERS Mead*.
1264.
v.
JOHN C. Mead*, twin (he died in California.)
1265.
vi.
SARAH Mead*, twin.
1266.
vii.
ANNA Mead*.
1267.
viii.
DARIUS Mead*, b. 1824 ; m. 1855.
Kate Van Valkenburgh, of Erie.
Other Families 385
1268. ix. HENRIETTA Mead\
1269.* x. LAURA M. Mead s , b. March 8, 1832 ; m.
John Andrew Jackson.
1270. xi. STEPHEN Mead*.
1271. xii. Mead*.
1272.- xiii. NELSON Mead*, b. Feb. 1, 1835.
(1272) NELSON Mead 8 , youngest child of John and
Sallie (Hoffman) Mead; b. February 1, 1835, in Youngs-
ville, Pa.; d. December 29, 1912, in Warren, Pa.; m. 1st,
March 1, 1859 :
Martha McDowell, dau. of Dr. McDowell and sister of
Lafayette McDowell, of Youngsville, Pa., she d. in 1886, and
he m. 2nd., October 3, 1888 ;
Caroline M. Ostrander, b. March 19, 1850, in Tompkins
Co., N. Y., dau. of John B. and Emmeline (Tichnor) Os-
trander.
Nelson Mead grew to manhood on the home farm, early
engaged in the lumber business, rafting the finished lumber
to Pittsburgh and other river cities, engaged in the general
merchandise business at Youngsville, but after several years
removed to Corydon, where he continued in that business
twenty-six years.
He was County Commissioner in the years 1871-72-73;
he w T as a member of the Corydon Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and of
the Warren Lodge, B. P. 0. E.
He retired from active business in 1907 and settled in
Warren. Children by first marriage:
1273. i. CHARLES C. Mead', of the firm of Mead &
Stewart; b. March 27, 1860; d. in Buffalo, N.
Y., before 1913.
1274. ii. ALICE Mead ! \ b. July 3, 1865; lives in War-
ren, Pa.
386 SlGGINS AND
1275. iii. GEORGE N. Mead , b. March 23, 1867 ; lives
in Buffalo, N. Y., where he is engaged in the real
estate business; married in Corydon, Pa., Octo-
ber 5th, 1901:
Ada L. Case, dau. of Frank and Ada Case.
1276. iv. DR. HARRY Mead 9 , b. July 11, 1869; d. 1917,
in Buffalo, N. Y. He was a graduate of the
medical department, Buffalo University, Class
1902, then took special courses in the hospitals
of Germany, returning he located in Buffalo and
continued the practice of his profession.
1277. v. MATTIE Mead 9 , b. June, 1872; d. January,
1876.
The only child by second marriage was:
1278. vi. MARJORIE 0. Mead 9 , b. July 5, 1891, a grad-
uate of the Warren High School and of Mount
Holyoke, Massachusetts.
(1252) JOHN MEAD S , of Pittsfield, Pa., settled on his
150 acre farm 1838 ; b. November 1, 1808, in Brokenstraw
Township; m. in 1832, in Brokenstraw Township.
Mary Ransom, dau. of Amasa and Abbie Ransom, of
Brokenstraw. Children :
1279. i. ERASTUS Mead 9 , enlisted Civil War 1862,
served to end of war.
REBECCA Mead 9 .
HARRIET Mead 9 .
CORDELIA Mead 9 .
RANSOM Mead 9 .
JOSEPH Mead 9 .
SUSAN Mead 9 .
LILLIAN Mead 9 .
ALICE Mead 9 .
1280.
n.
1281.
iii.
1282.
iv.
1283.
v.
1284.
vi.
1285.
vii.
1286.
viii.
1287.
ix.
Other Families 387
In 1887 all of the above nine children were living, and
there were twenty-three grandchildren and two great-grand-
children.
(1260) PHILIP Mead 8 , of Meadville, Pa. ; b. September
15, 1810; m. August 5, 1841.
(265) NANCY G. SIGGINS, b. August 6, 1817; dau.
of Judge William and Polly (Wilson) Siggins.
Children :
1288.* i. ANNE Alduma Mead", m.
Bryon J. Jackson.
1289. ii. CALIFORNIA Mead ! \ never married ; she was
cashier of the Youngsville Savings Bank from
1873 to 1906, when she was elected assistant
cashier of the First National Bank of Youngs-
ville, from which position she resigned in 1917.
In 1896 she was elected as one of the directors of
the Youngsville Public Schools for a three year
term and was re-elected in 1899 ; has always re-
sided in Youngsville.
1290.* iii. WASHINGTON J. Mead", m. Jennie King.
(See King family.)
1291. iv. IRVINE S. Mead", was a soldier in the civil
war.
1292. v. WALTER G. Mead , was a soldier in the civil
war.
1293. BYRON J. Jackson, of Youngsville, pa., b. Decem-
ber 8, 1838, in Youngsville; d. September 1,
1899, in Youngsville; m. September 8, 1864, in
Youngsville.
(1288) ANNA ALDUMA Mead, b. November 26, 1844,
in Warren County, Pa.
(Byron J. Jackson was a son of Thomas and Eveline
(King) Jackson; he was agent for the Philadalphia & Erie
railroad in Youngsville, thirty-seven years; treasurer of
388 SlGGINS AND
the Borough ; member of the city council and of the Meth-
odst Church, and a school director; he is survived by his
widow and one son Gilson Lynn Jackson; R. G. Mead, a
half-brother, and three half-sisters: Mrs. Sarah Davis,
Mrs. Ella Mead Connelly, wife of Sidney S. Connely, and
Mrs. Whitney of Pittsfield, Pa.)
Children :
1294. i. PHILIP Geary Jackson 1 ", b. August 22, 1866;
died young.
1295. ii. THOMAS C. Jackson 1 ", b. August 30, 1868;
died young.
1296. iii. ARCHIE C. Jackson 1 ", b. August 28, 1870;
died young.
1297. iv. GILSON Lynn Jackson 10 , b. March 2, 1874 ; m.
December 25, 1894; in Youngsville, Pa.
Carettia A. Knapp, b. July 22, 1874 ; they had one
son:
1298. OBED Byron Jackson 1 ', b. July 27, 1896; d.
June 16, 1897.
(1290) WASHINGTON J. MEAD", of Youngsville, was
a soldier in the civil war; m. June 10, 1874, in Youngsville.
Jennie King, b. January 2, 1848; (dau. of John Hamilton
and Martha (Russel) King, of Warren, Pa.). She attend-
ed the Warren Public Schools and later graduated from the
Painsville, Ohio, Seminary; she taught school a number of
years in Warren county ; was a member and a faithful and
energetic worker in the Episcopal church ; a charter mem-
ber of the General Joseph Warren chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution. She died in Youngsville, Sep-
tember 30, 19 — ; she is survived by her husband, one dau.
Klahr, and her sister, Dr. Elizabeth King, who lived with
her at Youngsville. Dr. King has since died.
Their daughter:
1299. i. KHLAR Mead"', b. Dec. 12, 1875, in Youngs-
ville, Pa.; m. July 19, 1904:
Other Families 389
George Ward Springer, of Willimette, Illinois; b.
December 14, 1869 ; (a son of Milton and Mary
(Ward) Springer, of Chicago, 111.).
Children :
1300. i. WINOGEN E. Springer 11 , b. March 2, 1908.
1301. ii. MARTHA Khlar Springer 11 , b. Feb. 16, 1910.
1302. iii. JANE Esther Springer 11 , b. Dec. 5, 1913.
(1216) DARIUS MEADM764-1813. Removed to War-
ren County, Pa. ; b. December 6, 1764 ; d. 1813, in
Meadville, Pa. ; m. about 1793.
Anna Hoffman. Children :
1303.*
i.
PHILIP Mead 7 , 1
1304.
ii.
DARIUS Mead 7 .
1305.
iii.
ASAHEL Mead 7
1306.
iv.
JOSEPH Mead 7
1307.
v.
RUTH Mead 7 .
1908.
vi.
BETSEY Mead 7 .
1309.
vii.
ANNA Mead 7 .
1310.
viii.
SARAH Mead 7 .
(1303) PHILIP MEAD 7 , b. 1794, in Brokenstraw town-
ship, Warren Co., Pa. ; d. 1861, in Brokenstraw township ; m.
Mary Coover, b. 1795; d. 1883. Children:
1311. i. WILLIAM A. Mead*, m.
Margaret A. Stranahan. Children:
1312. i. BESSY F. Mead 9 ,
1313. ii. GIBSON P. Mead , a farmer near Youngs-
ville, Pa.
1314. iii. LOUESA J. Mead', died at the age of
ten years.
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390 SlGGINS AND
1315. iv. CHESTER K. Mead , of Des Moines, la.
1316. ii. BENJAMIN M. Mead 8 , graduate Buffalo Med-
ical College ; d. in 1845.
1317. iii. SUSAN D. Mead 8 , m. 1841, Chester Kingsley,
now dead; had sons and daughters now living
in Texas, two in the practice of medicine in
San Antonio.
1318. iv. G. FILMORE Mead 8 , of Pittsfield, was born
1827 ;m. 1853:
Caroline Hotchkiss, dau. of Rev. David and Abigail
Hotchkiss, of Crawford County, Pa.
Children :
1319. i. HELEN De Ette Mead 9 , graduate of
Chamberlain Institute; m. J. R. Babcock.
1320. ii. KNIGHTON T. Mead 9 , graduate of Al-
legheny College, 1884.
1321. iii. MARY A. Mead 9 , graduate of Corry
School ; m. Willis Eddy.
1322. iv. ARLIE C. Mead 9 , graduate of Allegheny
College.
G. Filmore Mead 8 , enlisted in the Navy September, 1864,
and served under Capt. Rice, on the Reindeer; was trans-
ferred to the Abeona, under Acting-Master Samuel Hall;
was discharged at the close of the war.
WILBUR F. Mead 8 .
STEPHEN L. Mead 8 .
ULYSSES Mead 8 .
(1218) JOSEPH Mead' 5 , b. June 25, 1772; d. March,
1846; m. about 1794.
Hannah Boone, b. 1779, d. February 25, 1856, aged 77
years. Children :
1326. i. EVA Mead 7 , b. April 22, 1795.
1323.
v.
1324.
vi.
1325.
vii.
Other Families 391
1327.* ii. BENJAMIN Mead 7 , b. October 5, 1796; d.
1891 ; m. March 13, 1820 :
Almena Stebbins.
1328. iii. RUTH Mead 7 , b. September 15, 1798; d. July
3, 1801.
1329.* iv. DAVID Mead 7 , b. June 19, 1800; was the first
white child born in Brokenstraw Township,
Warren Co.
1330. v. JOHN Mead 7 , b. November 18, 1802; d. May
5, 1857.
1331. vi. RUTH Mead 7 , b. April 22, 1804; d. July 7,
1879.
1332. vii. WILLIAM Mead 7 , b. February 7, 1806; d.
Nov. 19, 1857.
1333. viii. SARAH Mead 7 , b. March 4, 1807.
1334. ix. DARIUS Mead 7 , b. February 4, 1810 ; d. May
27, 1845.
1335. x. MARY Mead 7 , b. December 7, 1811.
1336. xi. GOODING Mead 7 , b. May 20, 1814.
1337. xii. BOONE Mead 7 , b. February 27, 1816.
1338. xiii. ELIZABETH Mead 7 , b. December 13, 1818.
1339.* xiv. ABIGAIL Mead 7 , b. March 20, 1820; m.
David Beaty.
(1327) BENJAMIN MEAD 7 , settled on a farm in
Conawango Township in 1819; b. October 6, 1796, in War-
ren County, Pa. ; m. March 13, 1820 :
Almena Stebbins. Children:
1340.
1341.
1342.
1343.
ABRIM Mead 8 ,
i. ZERINA Mead 8 ,
ii. ROXY M. Mead 8 .
v. CAROLINE Mead 8 .
392
SlGGINS AND
1344. v. JOEL E. Mead 8 .
1345. vi. MARIA C. Mead 8 .
1346. vii. BENJAMIN F. Mead 8 , b. February 22, 1844 ;
m. October 22, 1868.
Penuel Falconer (dau. of James and Christina
(Stuart) Falconer, Sugar Grove Township).
Children :
1347. i. WILLARD Mead .
1348. ii. WALLACE Mead 9 .
1349. iii. RALPH Mead".
1350. iv. STEWART Mead .
(1329) DAVID MEAD 7 , the first white child born in
Brokenstraw, Twp. ; b. June 19, 1800 ; d. 1862 ; m.
Martha Tuttle, dau. of John Tuttle, of Connecticut.
Children :
1351.
1352.
1353.
1354.
1355.
HANNAH Mead 8 , deceased,
i. JOSEPH T. Mead 8 , deceased.
ii. GEORGE W. Mead 8 , deceased,
v. OREN Mead 8 , deceased.
JAMES M. Mead 8 .
1356. vi. ROBERT N. Mead 8 .
1357. vii. LOUISA Mead 8 .
1358. viii. MARTHA Ann Mead 8 , deceased.
1359. ix. RANSON G. Mead 8 , b. September 4, 1848, in
Conawango Twp.; m. 1873:
Julia Hogue, dau. of John Hogue, of Venango
County, Pa. He attended the public schools of
Warren, became a contractor and later owner of
several successful oil wels. Is a popuar busi-
ness man and highy esteemed; is a democrat;
has served as councilman; is an active member
of the Warren Lodge, No. 481, Knights of
Pythias.
Other Families 393
MEAD FAMILY.
"The Mead Family is among the oldest in England. It
dates back to the time when surnames were first used in the
Mother Country, immediately after the Norman Conquest.
The origin of the name is doubtless found in the old Saxon
word meaning meadow. The name of the family under
consideration appears in various forms of Mede, Meades,
and Meade, as well as Mead, and the use of the final "e"
is still common with some branches of the family in Amer-
ica.
Gabriel Mead, the immigrant ancestor, born in England
in 1589, was an early settler at Dorchester, Massachusetts,
where he was living when he was admitted a freeman May
2, 1638. In the adjoining town of Roxby settled William
and Richard Mead, known to be brothers. William Mead
was very wealthy for his day and made a liberal bequest to
the Roxby Free School. There was another William Mead
at Gloucester before 1639, and a Joseph Mead at Stamford,
Connecticut. Gabriel Mead died at Dorchester May 12,
1666, in his seventy-ninth year. His wife Joanna became
a member of the Dorchester Church about 1638. In his will
which was proved July 17, 1667, he bequeathed to his wife
Joanna and to his children, Lydia, Experience, Sarah and
Patience, minors, not mentioning by name the elder children.
Children :
i. ISRAEL Mead 2 , bpt. Sept. 2, 1639 ; m. Mary Hall.
ii. LYDIA Mead 2 , m. Oct. 19, 1652, James Burges.
iii. EXPERIENCE Mead 2 , bpt. Jan. 23, 1641-2; m.
Dec. 4, 1663, Jabez Heaton.
iv. SARAH Mead 2 , bpt. Jan. 4, 1643 ; m. Nov. 30, 1664,
Samuel Eddy.
394 SlGGINS AND
v. PATIENCE Mead 2 , bpt. March 29, 1646-7 ; m. April
28, 1669, Matthias Evans.
vi. DAVID Mead 2 ; bpt. July 7, 1650.
For further records of the descendants of Israel Mead 2 ,
see "Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Vol. II, p. 773."
NATHANIEL MEAD.
"Nathaniel Mead was an early settler in now Milan, then
North East Precinct. He was a descendant of the sixth
son of John Meade 2d, one of the earliest settlers of Horse
Neck, now Greenwich, Conn. His wife was Martha .
He held many offices in the Precinct organization and later
when a town. His children living in 1798 were:
i. HANNAH Meade.
ii. SAMANTHY Mead.
iii. RICHARD Mead.
iv. SARAH Mead.
v. JOHN Mead.
vi. ELIZABETH Mead.
vii. WALTER Mead.
Walter Mead (vii.) settled in Pine Plains, N. Y., was a
cabinet maker, and an accomplished workman; he made
long clock frames and other kinds of furniture now to be
found in old homesteads. He moved to Cairo Green Co.,
N. Y., in 1827, where he later married Elizabeth Winans
and they had several children, one of whom lived in Cleve-
land, Ohio, to be over eighty years of age."
(History of Little Nine Partners of North East Precinct
and Pine Plains, Duches County, N. Y.), by Isaac Hunting,
p. 370.
Other Families 395
BELNAP FAMILY.
This is an ancient Norman family, the name was original-
ly spelled Belknappe. The surname, like most Norman
names, is from the name of a locality — a place of the beau-
tiful hill: bel, meaning beautiful, and knap, a knoll or hill.
The family attained distinction in early times in Eng-
land; Sir Robert Belknap having been created chief justice
in the time of Edward II (A. D. 1375). The Belnaps' are
also descended from the following New England Pioneers:
Francis Hall, of Guilford, Mass. ; Thomas Burgess, of Sand-
wich, Mass., and John Ayer, of Haverhill.
1360. ABRAHAM BELKNAP 1 , the immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, settled in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, 1635-37 ; and died there in September,
1643; leaving a widow Mary, and children:
Abraham 2 , Jeremy 2 , Samuel, b. 1627-28, was
living in 1703; Joseph, b. in England, 1630; d.
in Boston, Nov. 14, 1712; John, Hannah and
Mary. His will is on file in Essex county pro-
bate court, Salem, Mass.
1361.* PHILO GURNSEY BELNAP, a descendant of the
above Abraham 1 , was born about 1800-8; mar-
ried:
(1253) Elizabeth Mead 8 , dau. of William and Susan
(Davis) Mead. Children:
1362. i. DRUZILLA Belnap, b. 1839, in Pittsfield
township, Warren county, Pa., m. 1865; (as a
second wife)
Benjamin Baird Siggins. (No. 760.)
1363. ii. EZRA Belnap, d. unmarried.
396 SlGGINS AND
1364. iii. WILLIAM D. Belnap, m.
Mary Greene, dau. of Dorwin Greene, of Youngs-
ville, Pa.
1365. iv. NIRAM P. Belnap, b. December 2, 1832; m.
Caroline Kinnear, b. January 4, 1834; dau. of
Robert and Jane (Alexander) Kinnear, they
lived in Ridgeway, Pennsylvania.
1366. v. ARCHIMEDES Madison Belnap, m. about
1858-9 ;
Ellen Fletcher (sister of Elizabeth Fletcher, first
wife of Philetus Verow Siggins). Children:
1367.* i. CARRA Myrtle Belnap, m.
Spencer Langdon Blodget.
1368. ii. ALTON Reno Belnap, b. Youngville, Pa.,
1865, lives in Bakersfield, Calif.
1369. iii. AUSTIN Fletcher Belnap, b. Youngsville,
July 21, 1880; m. 1906,
Teasie O'Neil; they live in Bakersfield, Calif.
1370. SPENCER LANGDON BLODGET, of Huntington
Beach, California, b. May 7, 1859, in Sugar
Grove, Pennsylvania, is a descendant in the
ninth generation from Thomas Blodgett, the
immigrant ancestor, who with his wife Susan
and sons Daniel, aged 4, and Samuel, aged l 1 /^
years, "embarqued" in the ship Increase from
London, April 18, 1635; he settled at Cam-
bridge, and was freeman in 1636; he died in
1641 ; from one of these sons is descended Solo-
mon Blodgett, who was a Revolutionary soldier,
and greatgrandfather of Spencer Langdon Blod-
gett, who married in Youngsville, Pa., 1877;
(1367) Carra Myrtle Belnap, b. Youngsville, Pa., Feb-
ruary 7, 1860; d. in Bakersfield, Calif., December 3, 1893.
Children :
Other Families 397
1371. i. CLAUDE Raymond Blodget (served in the
6th Regiment Calif., Volunteers, Spanish Ameri-
can War) ; b. July 21, 1878, in Youngsville, Pa.,
married :
Viola Garard, they. have one child: Jean Blodtret
b. 1914. '
1372. ii. PERCY Langdon Blodget (Mining Engineer),
of Cobalt, Ont., Canada, b. May 24, 1880, in
Youngsville, Pa.
1373. iii. RUSH M. Blodget, Atty-at-Law, Van Nuys,
Calif., b. December 3, 1881 ; in Youngsville, Pa.'
married :
Beryl Lovena French, b. December 13, 1887; in
Sacramento, Calif.
1374. iv. DANIEL Archimedes Blodget, b. 1886, in
Bakersfield, Calif., d. 1888.
1375. v. MARIAN Bernice Blodget, b. March 10, 1888,
in Bakersfield, Calif., married :
C. C. Ramsey, they live in Santa Ana, Calif., and
have one child: Carra Alice Ramsey, b. 1911.
1376. vi. STELLA Carra Blodget, b. Bakersfield, Calif
1889; d. 1891.
1377. vii. WARD Belnap Blodget, b. in Bakersfield,
Calif., Dec. 29, 1890; Resides at Fellows, Calif.'
Oil Engineer and Chief Geologist of Santa Fe
Ry. Co., served three months in 23d., Highway
Engineers, war with Germany, Honorable Dis-
charge to enable him to promote Oil Develop-
ment.
1378. viii. LEWIS William Blodget, b. in Bakersfield,
Calif., November 11, 1893; Atty at Law; res.
Huntington Beach, Calif.; 2nd., Lieut. 13th In-
fantry, U. S. A. War with Germany.
_ The Blodgett family are descended in the ninth genera-
tion from the following New England immigrants: Ste-
398 SlGGINS AND
phen Eggleton, 1638; John Tidd, 1637; Gregory Stone,
1635; Isaac Stearns, 1630; Walker Haynes, 1638; Nich-
olas Cody, 1645; William Beardsley, 1635. The direct
Blodgett line being:
LINEAGE.
THOMAS Blodgett 1 , b. 1605, in England; d. 1641, in Cam-
bridge, married in England, Susan .
SAMUEL Blodgett 2 , b. 1633, in England; married, in Wo-
burn, Mass., Ruth Eggleston dau of Stephen Eggleston,
1638.
THOMAS Blodgeet 3 , b. in Woburn, Mass. ; married :
Rebekah Tidd, grand-daughter of John Tidd, 1637.
JOSEPH Blodgett 4 , lived in Lexington, Mass., married:
Sarah Stone, gr-granddaughter of Gregory Stone, 1635.
JOSEPH Blodgett 5 lived in Brimfield, married :
Hepsebah Brown.
SOLOMON Blodgett 6 , of Brimfield, Clinton, N. Y. and Gor-
ham, N. Y., was a Revolutionary soldier married:
Hannah Haynes.
ARBA Blodgett 7 , of Clinton, N. Y. and Gorham, N. Y.,
married: Bebe Bullock.
WILLIAM Owen Blodgett 8 , of Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania;
married: Esther Ann Spencer. He was a soldier in
the Civil War.
(1370) SPENCER Langdon Blodgett 9 b. in Sugar Grove,
Pennsylvania, May 7, 1859; married in Youngsville, Pa.,
(1367) Carra Myrtle Belnap.
Other Families 399
THE KING FAMILY.
1379. WILLIAM KING, the immigrant ancestor, born
Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England, about 1607;
came to Salem, Massachusetts, in the ship Abi-
gail in 1635 ; his wife was :
Dorothy . Their fourth child :
1380. JOHN King 2 , b. in Salem, was bpt. November 1,
1638; m. September, 1660;
Elizabeth Goldthwaite. Their fifth child :
1381. JONATHAN King 3 , b. Salem, February 1674; m.
February 22, 1726, in Salem ;
Alice Verry, and removed to Sutton, Mass. Their
fourth child:
1482. JOHN King 4 , b. January 19, 1737, in Salem; Lieut.
Revolutionary War. m. January 10, 1757 in
Sutton,
Elizabeth Town. Their fifth child :
1383. JOHN King 4 , b. September 22, 1766, in Sutton; m.
March 1784; in Sutton, later removed to Ward,
now Auburn.
Tamar Putnam, b. October, 1768; d. December 6,
1819. Their second child :
1384. COLONEL JOHN KING', b. February 7, 1787; d.
October 27, 1842; in Warren County, Pa. He
came with his uncles Nathan and Micah Put-
nam to Warren County, in 1801 ; he enlisted in
the Erie County Militia, War of 1812; served
as ensign, and was later promoted to colonel;
400 SlGGINS AND
was sheriff of Warren Co. many years ; m. Au-
gust 15, 1811 ; in Warren County, Pa.
Betsy (Gilson) Stevens, widow of Edward Ste-
vens and dau. of John and Patience (Graves)
Gilson. Children :
1385. i. JOHN Hamilton King 6 , b. May 19, 1812; m.
Martha Russell. Their daughter:
1386. JENNIE King 7 , b. January 2, 1848; married:
(1290). WASHINGTON J. Mead. :;: (See Mead fam-
ily)
1387. ii. PATIENCE Maria King 6 , b. August 21,
1814; d. Nov. 28, 1884; m.
William Harmon.
1388.* iii. RUFUS Putnam King 6 , b. June 30, 1817, in
Warren, Pa.; d. January 7, 1899; married Sep-
tember 17, 1844:
Mary Sabrina James.
1389. iv. JAMES Edmond King", b. May 3, 1820; d.
January 21, 1888; m.
Sarah Kendall, December 31, 1851.
1390. v. MALVINA Tammar King 6 , b. February 14,
1823 ; d. April 22, 1868 ; m.
Ephriam Cowan, April 18, 1850.
1391. vi. BETSEY Jane King 6 , b. April 10, 1825; d.
August 26, 1862; m.
O. H. Hunter, January 6, 1848.
1392. vii. GEORGE Washington King 6 , b. February 5,
1827; d. July 2, 1889; m.
Olive C. Gould, November 28, 1854.
(1388). RUFUS PUTNAM KING 6 , of Warren, Pa.,
was early engaged in the lumber business with the late L.
F. Watson, and later served as cashier of the old North-
western Bank in Warren; also as associate judge, tax col-
Other Families 401
lector, prothonotary and register of records, he took an ac-
tive interest in the schools and served thirty years on the
board of education ; was one of the organizers of the War-
ren library and one of the four men who laid out the Cen-
tral Park ; his home was at the old Gilson place on Penn-
sylvania Avenue; he married September 17, 1844:
Mary Sabrina James, b. December 1, 1824; in Candia,
New Hampshire, daughter of Joseph Young and Polly
Sargent (Turner) James. Children:
1393. i. BELLE Sabrina King 7 , b. April 3, 1846;
Widow of William M. Stevens.
1394. ii. RUFUS James King 7 , b. Feb. 29, 1848; d.
November 11, 1856.
1395. iii. BLANCHE King 7 , b. October 17, 1850; m.
September 18, 1871 ; John Jay Boyce, b. Decem-
ber 21, 1833; d. March 15, 1896, in Chicago;
(son of William and Sally (Hay ward) Boyce,
natives of New Jersey) ; he was in the employ
of the Pennsylvania Ry. Company many years
as a passenger conductor. Mrs. Boyce is a
member of the General Joseph Warren Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution; Na-
tional No. — 59022; her revolutionary ancestors
were: Ezekiel Worthen, of New Hampshire;
Nathan Putnam of Massachusetts; John King
and John Gilson, also of Massachusetts; Moses
Turner, of New Hampshire. Children:
1396. i. BELLE Adelaide Boyce 8 , b. February
19, 1879.
1397. ii. ETHEL Blanche Boyce 8 , b. January 17,
1881 ; d. Sept. 14, 1909.
1398. iii. JOHN Jay Boyce, Jr. 8 , b. December 29,
1885 ; d. in infancy.
Mrs. Boyce lives at 312 Hazel Street, Warren Pennsyl-
vania.
402 SlGGINS AND
KING-GILSON-GRAVES.
1399. JOHN GILSON, b. in Groton, Mass., in June 1750 ;
d. in March 1811, at Warren, Pa.; m. in 1769,
at Sunderland, Mass.
(1403). Patience Graves, b. June 20, 1749. They were
living in Sunderland, in 1783 ; he served in the Revolution-
ary War; they removed to Salisbury, Litchfield, Co., Con.,
and from there to eastern Pennsylvania and finally in
1803; settled in Warren, going there from Olean, N. Y.,
in canoes and flat-boats; where he built a log house; this
was replaced in 1824, by the house still standing which has
been in possession of the Gilson and King families for
ninety-seven years. Children:
1400. i. LYDIA Gilson, b. December 30, 1769, in Sun-
derland, Mass.; m. in Salsbury, Conn.
John Owens, (she was his 3d wife), they had a
daughter: E.lsie Owens, b. in Salisbury, who
married : George Fenton, they were the parents
of: Reuben Fenton, "War" Governor of New
York State.
1401. ii. BETSEY Gilson, b. in Salisbury, in 1791;
m. 1st:
Edward Stevens, and m. 2nd, August 11, 1811 :
Col. John King.f
Mrs. Harden, of Endeavor, and Mrs.
McGill, of Tidioute, are descendants of John
and and Lydia (Gilson) Owens.
1402. iii. OLIVE Gilson, married:
Cannon.
Mrs. Proper and Mrs. Hopkins,
of Tionesta, are descended from her.
Other Families 403
1403. PATIENCE (Graves) Gilson, was descended from:
1404. THOMAS GRAVES, the immigrant ancestor was
born in England, before 1585 ;was of Hartford
in 1645 ; and d. at Hatfield, Dec. 1662 ; his wife
was Sarah John Graves, his son,
b. in England, was killed by the Indians, in
their attack upon Hatfield, in 1676; he m. 1st,
Mary Smith, dau. of Lieut. Samuel Smith.
Their son: Samuel Graves, b. 1657, was one of
the first 40 settlers of Sunderland ; he d. March
11, 1721; m. Sarah Their son:
Noah Graves, b. Dec. 19, 1695; d. March 17,
1773; m. Rebecca, dau. of Benoni Wright; their
son Reuben Gilson, b. 1724, in Sunderland; d.
March 11, 1778; m. Hannah Fuller, Sept. 18,
1748; their daughter: Patience Graves, b. June
10, 1749; married in 1769; John Gilson.f
404 SlGGINS AND
DAVIS FAMILY.
1405. ELIJAH H. DAVIS 1 , b. 1757, participated in the
War of the Revolution ; d. 1823 in the northern
part of Warren County, Pa.; m. Desiah Little,
and settled in Warren Co. soon after the war.
They had six sons and three daughters. Chil-
dren:
1406.* i. ABRAHAM Davis 2 , b. March 22, 1782, in New
Jersey; m. Nov. 12, 1807:
Ruth Mead, b. Aug. 16, 1789, in Meadville, Pa.
1407. ii. JAMES Davis 2 , was 82 years of age in 1887.
1407a. iii. SUSAN Davis 2 , b. March 1, 1784.
(1406). ABRAHAM DAVIS 2 , was an early teacher
and became a successful farmer. He was also interested
in the lumber business, and shipped lumber to New Orleans,
via the Allegheny River ; he was b. March 22, 1782, in New
Jersey; m. Nov. 12, 1807, in Warren County, Pennsyl-
vania, Ruth Mead, b. Aug. 16, 1789 in Meadville; he d.
March 14, 1863 ; she d. Jan 25, 1867. Children :
1408. i. ELSIE Davis 3 , b. 1808 ; d. 1850.
1409. ii. SUSAN Whitney Davis 3 , b. 1809 ; m.
1410. iii. ELIJAH Davis 3 , b. 1813.
1411. iv. DARIUS Davis 3 , b. 1815.
1412.* v. WILLIAM A. Davis 3 , b. 1818; m. Feb. 22,
1839, Prudence A. Blakesle.
1413. vi. JOHN Davis 3 , b. 1819.
1414. vii. ANN Devendorf Davis 3 , b. 1820.
Other Families 405
1415. viii. ASHEL Davis 5 , b. 1824.
1416. ix. P. FILMORE Davis 3 , 1825.
1417.* x. WILLARD J. Davis 3 , b. 1828, in Youngsville,
Pa.; m. 1850, Laura Littlefield, b. 1829, in
Brokenstraw, Township; she d. 1868; he m.
2d, Sept. 1869, Meda Root.
(1412). WILLIAM A. DAVIS 3 , b. April 18, 1818, in
Youngsville, Pa. ; m. Feb. 22, 1839, Prudence A. Blakesley,
b. 1820 in Crawford County; she was daughter of Reuben
and Prudence ( ) Blakesley, who were born and
married in Washington County, N. Y., and settled in Craw-
ford Co. Pa., in 1817, where they lived and died. Children :
1418. i. ROBERT E. Davis 4 , b. Dec. 23, 1839; m.
Harriet A. Hamblin.
1419. ii. REUBEN P. Davis', b. May 17, 1842; m.
1866, Agnes A. Carrie.
1420. iii. JOHN W. Davis', b. Nov. 25, 1844 ; m. 1867,
Sarah Holt.
1421. iv. LAURA A. Davis 4 , b. Sept. 8, 1848; m. 1866,
Burt Hotchkiss.
1422. v. SUSAN H. Davis 4 , b. Aug. 12, 1853 ; m. 1872,
G. Y. Ball.
1423. vi. CHARLES L. Davis 4 .
(1417). WILLARD J. DAVIS 3 , b. 1828, in Youngsville,
Warren Co. Pa.; m. 1850, Laura Littlefield, b. 1829; she
d. March 1868 ; he m. 2d, Sept. 1869, Meeda Root, of Farm-
ington. Mr. Davis was a representative man of his town;
was a justice of the peace for five years ; a school director
for twenty-four years, and active in all the interests re-
lating to his town. He was reared on his father's farm,
but at an early age gave his attention to the culture of
bees, and is now (1887) one of the largest apiarist in West-
—27
406 SlGGINS AND
era Pennsylvania and is also engaged in general farming.
Children of Willard J. and Laura (Littlefield) Davis:
1424. i. WALTER L. Davis 4 .
1425. ii. HOMER F. Davis 4 .
1426. iii. MARY Alice Davis 4 , m. 1881, Mr. J. L. Bab-
bit of Grand Valley.
Children of Willard J. and Meeda (Root) Davis:
1427. iv. GRACE Davis 4 , b. 1870.
1428. v. JOE Davis.
(Hist, of Warren Co. Pa. Edited by J. S. Schenck, pub.
1887) p. xxv.
Tfttmiott.
KIMBALL COAT OF ARMS.
Other Families 407
KIMBALL FAMILY.
The English forebears of the Kimballs were an ancient
family of the county of Suffolk. The original orthography
was probably Kymbolde, and several other forms of spell-
ing appear in the English records, as : Kembold, Kembould,
Kembolis, Kembolde, and Kemball. The American Kim-
balls are the progeny of two brothers, Richard from whom
are descended the Kimballs of Connecticut, and Henry, who
spelled his name Kemball. The coat-of-arms given in the
family genealogy is: Argent, a lion rampant, gules, upon
a chief sable, three crescents of gold. Crest: a lion ram-
pant holding in the dexter paw a dagger au propre.
Richard Kimball, of Rattlesden, County Suffolk, who on
account of the religious upheaval which was then at its
height in the mother country, sought a home in New Eng-
land, was among the passengers on the ship "Elizabeth"
which sailed from Ipswich, England, for Boston, April 10,
1634. He was accompanied by his large family, and as he
was a wheelwright by trade and a skillful mechanic, he
proved a most welcome addition to the infant colony. Go-
ing first to Watertown, Massachusets, he was made a free-
man there, May 6, 1635, and the following year became a
landed proprietor. In response to a demand for a com-
petent wheelwright by the settlers of Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, he subsequently removed to that town, and there
spent the remainder of his life, plying his calling with
energy and contributing largely to the welfare of the com-
munity. His death occured June 22, 1675. His first wife
whom he married in England, was Ursula Scott, of Rat-
tlesden, daughter of Henry Scott accompanied him to
America and died prior to October 23, 1661 on which date
408 SlGGINS AND
he married (second) Mrs. Margaret Dowe, of Hampton,
New Hampshire. She died March 1, 1676. Richard Kim-
ball was the father of eleven children, all of his first union
and eight of them were natives of England.
(Gen. Con. Fam.)
"WILL OF HENRY KEMBOLD OF HECHM (Hitch-
man?) 4 , January 1558, proved 10 March 1558. To be
buried in the churchyard of Henchm. To my wife Sysley
Kembold my tenement I live called Pogelle's &c. and a piece
of land in Rattlesden. These to son Henry after my wife's
decease, he may pay certain sums to his brothers and sis-
ters. To son Thomas three pounds six shillings and eight
pence, whereof thirty three shillings and eight pence at his
age of twenty one years and then every year six shillings
eight pence until the sum, three pounds six shillings eight
pence, be fully paid. To son Henry a piece of land which I
have in mortgage of Henry Bowie. To son RICHARD.
six pounds thirteen shillings four pence, for to be paid by
Henry Kembold my son, at his age of twenty one years. To
daughters Agnes and Margaret Kembold thirty three
shillings each at days of marriage and the same sum in
five years. Wife Syslye and son Henry to be executors and
Edmund Lever to be Supervisor." Bury Willis Book Bell,
L. 542.
(Gen. Gl. of Eng. by Waters, Vol. II. p. 1412)
"WILL OF ROBERT WHOTLOCK of Rattlesden,
knacker, 20 September 1623, proved 8 October 1623. My
kinsman Thomas Skott of Rattlesden, glover. My sister
MARTHA SCOTT. My kinswoman URSULA KEMBALL.
Kinswoman Ellen Usher. Andrew Bartholomewe. An-
drew Fordham of Rattlesden. Elizabeth Bell. Prudence
Webb. My kinsman Roger Skotte at one and twenty years
of age. House in Norfolk my brother Whotlock gave me.
Peter Devereux, minister of Rattlesden. Henry Skott a
witness".
(Consistory of Norwich, B. Bradstreet, L. 125.)
Other Families 409
"WILL OF HENRY SKOTT of Rattlesden, Suffolk, yeo-
man, 24 September 1623, proved 10 January 1624. To my
wife MARTHA the house where in I dwell &c. during
term of her natural life ; after that to my son Roger Skoot
and his heirs forever. To Abigail Kemball my grandchild
forty shillings at her age of one and twenty years. To my
grand child Henry Kemball twenty shillings at age of one
and twenty and the same sum each to grandchildren Eliza-
beth and Richard Kemball at same age. To son Thomas
Skott five pounds within one year after my decease. To
Mr. Peter Devereau, minister of Rattlesden, ten shillings.
Wife Martha to be executrix.
(Bury Wills, Book Pearle, L. 117)
"It was this very Martha Scott who, with her son Thom-
as Scott and her daughter Ursula Kembold or Kemball and
the latter's husband, Richard Kemball, took passage the
last of April 1634, in the — Elizabeth, — William Andrews
master, from the port of Ipswich in old England, and
settled in Ipswich, New England."
(H. F. Waters, Gen. Gl. in England, Vol. II. p. 1412)
1429. "RICHARD KEMBALL came to this country in
the ship Elizabeth, William Andrews, master,
in 1634. He appears to have gone, soon after
landing, to Watertown, Mass. Richard is said
on the shipping list to be thirty-nine years old,
but he was probably somewhat older. He was
however, in the prime of life, and soon became
a prominent and active man in the new settle-
ment. He first settled in Watertown and his
home lot is thus given by Dr. Henry Bond:
Richard Kimball, six acres, bounded on the
north by Cambridge, east by land of W. Ham-
let, south by the highway, and west by the
land of Edward White. This lot was situated
a long way from the center of the town it is
now in Cambridge, which many years ago an-
nexed the eastern part of Watertown. He was
410 SlGGINS AND
proclaimed freeman in 1635 May 6; was a pro-
prietor in 1636-7. Soon after this date he was
invited to remove to Ipswich, where they were
in need of a competent man to act as wheel-
wright to the new settlement. Here he spent
the remainder of his days. He was also grant-
ed at the same time "40 acres beyond the North
River, near the land of Robert Scott — His
brother-in-law, Thomas Scott died Feb. 1653-4
and he was joint executor, with Edmund
Bridges of his will. On May 25, 1645, their
official position was recognized by Thomas
Scott, Jr., then a resident of Stamford, Conn.
Richard Kimball was of the parish of Rat-
tlesden, county of Suffolk, England, as is shown
by the following entry on the parish register:
"Henry Kimball ye son of Richard and Vrsula
his wife baptized 1615 12 of August."
Richard Kimball| married second, Oct. 23,
1661 Margaret Dow, widow of Henry Dow of
Hampton, N. H."
In the will of Richard Kemball — dated 5,
March 1674-5, is found mention of his daugh-
ter Sarah — "To my daughter Sarah I give forty
pounds to be payed the yeare & halfe after my
decease and the rest five pound a yeare till it
be all payd, also to her children I give seaven
pounds ten shillings to be payd to them as they
come of age or at day of marriage; if any dye
before, that part to be equally divyded to the
rest. And to my daughter Sarah above ss. ; I
also give the bed I lye on with the furniture
after one years use of it by my wife". &c&e.
Children :
1430. i. ABIGAIL KimbalP, b. County Suffolk, Eng-
land; d. in Salisbury, Mass., June 17, 1658; m.
in England, John Severans.
Other Families 411
1431. ii. HENRY Kimball 2 , b. 1616— or Aug. 12, 1615,
Rattlesden, Suffolk Co. England.
1432. iii. ELIZABETH Kimball 1 ', b. Rattlesden, Eng-
land, 1621; no record of m. ; she was alive in
1675.
1433. iv. RICHARD KembalP, b. Rattlesden, Eng.,
1623; d. May 26, 1676, in Wrenham, Mass.
1434. v. MARY Kimball-, b. Rattlesden, Eng., 1625;
m. Robert Dutch of Gloucester and Ipswich,
Mass.
1435. vi. MARTHA Kimball 2 , b. Rattlesden, Eng.,
1629; m. Joseph, son of Philip and Martha
Fowler, who was b. in England in 1622, and
killed by the Indians May 19, 1676 near Deer-
field, Mass. He came to New England in the
ship Mary, with his father, in 1634, and re-
sided in Ipswich, Mass.
1436. vii. JOHN Kimball 2 , b. Rattlesden, Eng., 1631;
d. May 6, 1698.
1437. viii. THOMAS Kimball 2 , b. 1633 ; d. May 6, 1698.
1438.* ix. SARAH Kimball 2 , b. Watertown, Mass.,
1635; d. June 12, 1690; m.
(1441) Edward Allen of Ipswich, Mass.
1439. x. BENJAMIN Kimball, b. Ipswich, 1637; d.
June 11, 1695.
1440. xi. CALEB Kimball 2 , b. Ipswich, Mass., 1639; d.
1682.
(History of the Kimball Family, by Leonard A. Morri-
son.)
412 SlGGINS AND
KIMBALL LINEAGE.
HENRY Kembold 1 , will dated Jan. 4, 1588; m. Sysle
( ) ; their son
RICHARD Kimball 2 , (Kemball), b. in England, prob. in
Rattlesden, Suffolk County; m. in England
URSULA Scott, dau. of Henry and Martha (Whatlock)
Scott; their daughter
SARAH Kimball", m. Edward Allen of Ipswich, N. E. ;
their son
EDWARD Allen 4 , m. Mercy Painter;
their son
WILLIAM Allen'', m. Mary Budd;
their son
JAMES Alien* 1 , m. Margaret Anderson;
their son
MALCUM Allen 7 , m. Mary Cunningham;
their son
WILLIAM Allen*, m. Elizabeth Tilf ord ;
their daughter
SARAH Ann Allen", m. Samuel Scott Walker;
their daughter
ELIABETH Erma Walker 1 ' 1 , m. Benjamin Baird Siggins;
their daughter
EMMA Siggins 11 , m. John Barber White;
their children
EMMA Ruth White,
RAYMOND Baird White.
Other Families 413
SOME EARLY ALLEN ANCESTORS
ARTHUR ALLEN ] , the emigrant, was in 1667, as stat-
ed by himself to be sixty-five years. He died in 1670. He
calls Daniel Tucker (aged fifty-five in 1667) "brother".
As Tucker was the younger of the two, Allen's wife Alice
was probably Alice Tucker. This view is confirmed by a
grant dated March 13, 1649 to Arthur Allen, of 200 acres,
between Lawne's Creek and Chippoakes Creek, for im-
porting into the colony, four persons viz,: Alice Tucker,
Wm. Eyers, Wm. Moss, and Thomas Rastell (Land regis-
ter). Daniel Tucker of York County, died before 1664,
leaving a daughter Dorothy, who married, first, Capt.
Brian Smith; secondly, Hugh Owen. His widow Margaret
married Major Joseph Croshaw, of York County, whose
daughter, Unity, married John West, of West Point, Vir-
ginia.
(William and Mary Quarterly, 6. p. 130.)
MATTHEW ALLEN 1 , born in England--was in Cam-
bridge, Mass., 1632; d. 1670 in Windsor. In Mr. Henry
Water's "Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol. II. p.
932, is the will of William Thorne of Eastdown, Devon, 17
February 1637; which reads in part" All these legacies
to be paid out of the lands and "demeneaes" which I late-
ly bought of one Mr. Matthew Allyn. To William Allyn
my godson, son of Edward Allyn" &c &c. "I have little
doubt that the Mr. Matthew Allyn here referred to as hav-
ing sold lands to William Thorne, was our Mr. Matthew Al-
lyn of Cambridge, Mass., and afterwards of Hartford
and Windsor, Connecticut. He and (his kinsman) Thomas
Allyn (or Allen) of Barnstable, Massachusetts, are fre-
quently referred to in Lechford's Note-Book, and especial-
ly in connection with Devonshire and west of England
men. On page 416 of that Note-Book (as printed) Mr.
414 SlGGINS AND
Matthew Allyn (or Allen) is described as lately of Bram-
tom in com. Devon. &c. I have no doubt by Bramton is
meant Braunton, near Barnstable Devon. East-Down
(Eastdowne, as above) is very near both places. On page
418 of the Note-Book (as printed) appears Thomas Allyn
(or Allen of Barnstable N. E., conveying to John Eells of
Dorchester, N. E., one house and garden in Barnstable,
Devon, and referring to father-in-law, John Marke, of
Bramton in Devon and brother, Richard Allen, of Bran-
ton, aforesaid, Here then we may look for the home of
Matthew and Thomas Allyn.
(Signed) Henry F. Waters.)
ALLEN — This is one of the names most frequently met
in the United States, and is represented by many distinct
families. Several immigrants came to New England. One
of the earliest
GEORGE ALLEN 1 , born in England about 1568, under
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, came to America with his
family in 1635, and settled in Sagus (Lynn) Massachu-
setts. He had ten children, some of whom had proceeded
to this country and settled in the vicinity of Boston. In
1637 George Allen joined with Edmund Freeman and oth-
ers in the purchase of the township of Sandwich. When
this town was incorporated Mr. Allen was chosen deputy
— the first officer in town — and served in that capacity for
several years. He was a conscientious Puritan, and a
member of the Baptist Church. After the purchase of
Sandwich several of his sons moved to that town with
their families. George Allen died in Sandwich, May 2,
1648, aged eighty years. In his will he named five sons:
Matthew, Henry, Samuel, George and William; and also
made provision for his "five last children" without naming
them. From the fact that settlers of the name came from
Baintree, Essex England about the same time, it is in-
ferred that he came from the same locality. In 1632 Sam-
uel and Matthew Allen and their brother Thomas Allyn (as
Other Families 415
he spelled it) came from Braintree and located at Cam-
bridge, whence all of them subsequently moved to Con-
necticut.
(New Hampshire Genealogy. IV. p. 1997.)
Lieutenant Josiah Standish, son of Miles Standish, mar-
ried Sarah Allen, daughter of Samuel and Ann
and grand daughter of George Allen 1 .
SAMUEL ALLEN', from Braintree, Essex County,
England, (some authorities say from Dorchester) ; came
to Cambridge in 1632 ; removed to Windsor, 1635 ; d. April
1648, a. 60. He m. Ann ; she m. 2d, William
Hulburt of Nhn., and d. Nov. 13, 1687. This is the an-
cestor of the famous General Ethan Allen of Vermont.
THOMAS ALLEN (Dea), brother of Samuel Allen and
Col. Matthew Allyn, came first to Cambridge, Mass., from
England, in 1632; was freeman in 1635. He removed to
Hartford with his bro. Matthew in 1635 ; he was twice
married ; his first wife was Isabella 1 who died
about 1678; he m. second, Martha Gipson (or Gibson),
widow of Roger Gipson, of Saybrook, Conn., about 1680-1 ;
he removed from Hartford, Conn., in 1650, with the first
planters of Mattabeseck (Middletown), where he became
a prominent man of the town, was chosen deacon of the
First Church, 16 March, 1670 ; was a representative to the
General Court, selectman, etc. Having no children, he
adopted his nephew, Obediah, fourth son of his then de-
ceased brother, Samuel Allen, of Windsor, Conn., who lived
with him during his minority and received a large share
of his estate. Deacon Thomas Allyn, died at Middletown,
Conn., 16 Oct. 1688; his will is dated 15 Oct. 1688; and
proved' Feb. 1689. His widow Martha, died at Middle-
town, Conn., November 1702, her will was dated 30 April,
1690.
THOMAS Allen (son) of Samuel Allen, bapt. 11 Nov..
1604. Chelmsford Records, England.
416 SlGGINS AND
Deacon THOMAS Allen, is supposed to have been a son
of Samuel Allen, of Chelmsford, Essex Co., England; he
emigrated with the original Braintree Company, 1632, to
Charlestown, Mass".
(From Ancient Windsor, p. — 27.)
MATTHEW ALLEN was here (Cambridge, Mass.), in
1632, and in 1635, he owned an estate at the N. W. corner
of Winthrop and Dunster Streets. He also owned the op-
posite corner south of Winthrop Street. He was a deputy
in the General Court 3 Mar. 1635-6; removed to Connecti-
cut with Hooker and settled in Windsor, where he died
1670, having had ch. John, Thomas and Mary. Mr.
Allen sustained a high rank among his fellow colonists;
held several town offices; served as juror, deputy magis-
trate, and assistant, in the Colony government. He was
appointed by the Colony, in 1660 and 1664, one of the
"Commissioners of the United Colonies", and office fully
equal in dignity and importance to that of Senator in the
Congress of the United States. — Hinman and Hazzard.
(From History of Cambridge, p. — 479.)
"THE GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES, a narra-
tive of the movement in England, 1605-1616, which result-
ed in the Plantation of North America by Englishmen, &c,
by Alexander Brown. Vol. I, p. — 467, Anno Dom — 1610
(1611, NS)
"The names of such as have signed with the somes of
"money by them adventured on 3 years toward the supply
"of the Plantation begonne in Virginia, according to their
"order of writeing for that business, remaininge in the
"Register Booke in the hands of Sir Thomas Smith —
"Citizens —
"Thomas Scott, 37, L. 10s.
"George Scott, 37. L. 10s.
"Edward Alleine, 37, L. 10s.
Other Families 417
"Knights—
"John Greye. 37, L. 10s.
"Edward Alleine, gent. 75, L.
"Andrew Throughton, 37, L. 10s.
"The adventures of the noblemen & Companies of London,
"amounting to the some of five thousand pounds here re-
"cyted makes up some eighteen thousand pounds mentioned
"in our letter."
p— 465.
"This subscription list began to be circulated as early as
"November 1610, if not before. The last session of the
"first Parliament of James I., closed February 9, 1611, and
"this list had evidently been circulated among the members
"of the House of Commons, many of whom signed it, of the
"100 Knights, probably 75 served at some time in the House
"and most of them were members. Of the 58 esquires,
"about 25 were members. Of the 142 Citizens, and others,
"nearly all were men of affairs of that day, merchants &c.
"A good many of them, also, served in Parliament, some
"became knights, baronets &c. All of the subscribers must
"have been persons of considerable means as the smallest
"subscription was 37 pound, 10 shillings, a sum equal to
"one thousand dollars present value."
p— 208.
"The Second Charter to the Treasurer &c Co — for Virginia,
"erecting them into a corporation & Body Politic & fur-
ther enlargement & explanation of the privileges of the
"said Company & first Colony of Virginia. Dated May 23,
1609-7-James."
Among other signatures attached are those of —
"Edward Allen, (p— 216.) George Scott, (p— 218).
418 SlGGINS AND
ALLEN FAMILY.
"The name of Allen, being a Christian name, converted,
in process of time into a family name, may have been borne
originally by several individuals, nowise related to each
other; but it indicates in all its spelling (such as Alain,
Alein, Alleyn, &c), a Norman origin. An Alain did in
fact, come in with the conqueror, having commanded the
rear guard at the battle of Hastings. Of the fifty fami-
lies of the name, mentioned as still extant in the books of
heraldry, many have arms of very ancient date. The
Alleyns of Essex, in particular, bear the arms of an ancient
crusader, viz : on a sable shield, a cross potent or ; with the
crest, a demi-lion azure, holding in the two paws the rud-
der of a vessel or. Motto : Fortiter gerit Crucem. These
arms are mentioned as born, amongst others by Sir Thom-
as Alleyn bart., of Thaxted Grange, and Samuel Alleyn,
Esq., of Chelmsford, both in Essex.
When Mr. Hooker of Chelmsford came to New England,
in 1632, and a few years later (1636) to Windrso, Conn.,
he was accompanied by one of his congregation, MATH-
EW Allen whose name appears frequently and promi-
nently on the early records of the town and colony. Later
appears the name of Samuel and Thomas Allen brothers.
Samuel died in 1648, leaving three sons, Samuel, Nehemiah,
and John. Nehemiah died in 1684. One of his sons Samuel,
born in 1665, removed to Deerfield, then to Coventry, Conn.
One of Samuel's sons Joseph was born in Deerfield in 1708,
and died at Coventry in 1755. Joseph was the father of
GEN. ETHAN ALLEN, who was born at Woodbury,
Conn., Jan. 10, 1737, and died at Colchester, Vt., Feb. 13,
1789. Heman Allen, of Chili was a nephew of Ethan Al-
len's. Now the diligence and sagacity of the Rev. Dr. Al-
len have for the first time established the fact that Ethan
Allen's progenitor, Samuel, was a brother of Mathew Allen,
and therefore of the Essex family of Alleyns.
Other Families 419
III. Samuel Allen, uncle of Heman Allen of Milton and
Burlington, the Indian captive and Revolutionary soldier —
who lived to be past ninety — preserved the traditionary his-
tory of this branch of the Aliens, which, with some help
from records, may be given as follows : An officer of Crom-
well's by the name of Allen (whose christian name has been
lost) emigrated to New England coming directly to Con-
necticut — landing probably at New Haven. The date of his
arrival cannot be placed much later than that of Mathew,
Samuel, and Thomas at Windsor. He married in this coun-
try and had seven sons and one daughter. Of these Sam-
uel and Mary migrated to Elizabethtown, N. J. John pur-
chased a right in Deerfield, in 1671, although he may not
have settled there at once. Edward joining at first, in the
migration to Elizabeth, there married Mercy Painter, who
used to relate, that in her early years, she had seen the
head of King Philip, as it was borne through her native
town. After his marriage Edward returned to New Eng-
land, and settled with his brother John, in Deerfield at The
Bars, in 1668. He died in 1740. Samuel, son of Edward
(born 1702 killed by the Indians August 25, 1746), was
father of Caleb, Samuel, Eunice Lamberton, (Note. A fami-
ly name. The mother of Mercy Painter, Edward Allen's
wife was a Lamberton — a name which stands forth in the
early history of New Haven.) and Enoch. Caleb, lived and
died at The Bars. Samuel was the Indian captive, after-
wards a lieutenant in the Revolutionary army. Lamberton
was the settler of Grand Isle. Enoch was the father of
Heman Allen of Milton and Burlington. IV. Abishai Al-
len, (an older brother of Heman Allen of Milton) who lived
in the family of his Uncle Caleb at The Bars from 1787 to
1795, preserved the following incident, which occurred with-
in his knowledge. Gen. Ethan Allen made a visit to Caleb
Allen for the purpose of comparing genealogies — in conse-
quence most probably, of a tradition of relationship current
in both branches, and known to Ethan Allen through his
father, who was born in Deerfield. The result of this ses-
sion of the two old gentlemen — who undoubtedly, like most
420 SlGGINS AND
seniors of that day, carried in their heads an inexhaustible
store of genealogical facts — was that the tradition of re-
lationship was fully confirmed. There is nothing in what
we do not know to invalidate this decision ; and it was based
On much, without a doubt which we do know. It must
therefore, I think, be taken as conclusive. If so when the
progenitor of the Deerfield (N. H.) branch must have been
another brother of Matthew — one who (like Samuel and
Thomas) came to Connecticut later and in no direct associa-
tion with him. If so again the two Heman Aliens were, as
I have said probably related by blood, and both of the Es-
sex family and descendants of that stout Christain warrior
"who bravely bore the cross".
Signed G. A.
In the Vermont Gazetteer, published 1876 Volume I. page
606 there is found very interesting genealogical informa-
tion regarding the Allen Family ; written by George Allen,
Professor in the University of Pennsylvania. We take the
liberty of inserting it here, with the above sketch, namely
the "Genealogical Appendix" which follows the record of
his family.
EDWARD ALLEN.
"Edward Allen of Ipswich. Came from Scotland to New
England in 1636; m. Kimball and had 15s. and 3 dau. (M.
S., letter of Hon. Joseph C. Allen) Hubbard mentions the
burning of his barn by lightning 1670."
(Gen. Reg. of First Sett, of New Eng. by John Farmer.)
"Edward Allen of Ipswich, says a very doubtful tradition,
came from Scotland 1636; m. Kimball, and had, as runs the
same story fifteen s. and three d's (That account was given
by Hon. Samuel C. Allen to Farmer). In Hist, of Hubbard,
wh. was his neighbor the bur. of his barn 1679 was ment.
Other Families 421
With w. Sarah wh. d. 12 June 1696, he removed to Suffield,
having had nine ch. and there had one b. 1683, and ano.
1685. of seven sons the names are told, but without dates
exc. John, wh. is said to have been b. a. 1660, and was
killed by the Indians 11 May 1704 at Deerfield where he
had lived from 1685; Edward wh. also lived at D. there d.
1740 leaving a f am. ; William, who d. at Suffield 1702 ; Ben-
jamin, the anc. of Hon. Samuel C. who settled at Deerfield;
David and SAMUEL, both it is said went to N. J. ; Caleb, b.
Mar. 1685, prob. youngest child; four dau's are named;
Sarah; m. 21 April 1685 Edward Smith; Martha, m. Sam-
uel Kent, Jr. Abigail, m. Timothy Palmer; Mary, of whom
nothing is told."
(Savage Gene. Die. Vol. I.)
—28
422 SlGGINS AND
1441. "EDWARD ALLEN 2 , weaver, of Ipswich, 1658; in
1662 he was occupying a farm owned by Rev.
John Norton of Boston; in 1670 his barn was
burned by lightning, with 60 loads of barley ; in
1678 he received a grant of 60 acres of land at
Suffield, Conn., where he d. Nov. 21, 1696. In
his will, made one week before his death, he pro-
vides for his five younger sons, at Suff. and his
two younger daus., Elizabeth and Sarah. The
older daus. are not mentioned and were probably
both dead. He provided that Samuel should live
with Benjamin, and Caleb with David, until
they were 21; the older brothers to teach the
younger the "art or trade of a weaver" and
when they came of age to build each a house and
give each a cow." He m. Nov. 24, 1658, Sarah,
dau. of Richard Kimball of Ipswich, who came
from Ipswich, England, in 1634; two brothers
of Sarah were killed by Indians, Caleb with
Lothrop, and Thomas at Rowley the next year;
she d. June 12, 1696, aged abt. 56. Children:
1442.* i. JOHN Allen 3 , b. Aug. 9, 1659 ; d. May 11, 1704 ;
m. Feb. 22, 1682, Elizabeth Prichard.
1443.* ii. SARAH Allen 3 , b. July 4, 1661; d. Feb. 10,
1661-2.
1444.* iii. EDWARD Allen 3 , b. May 1, 1662; d. 1740 at
Deerfield, m. Nov. 24, 1683, Mercy Painter.
1445. iv. SARAH Allen 3 , b. March 1, 1664; m. April 21,
1685, Edward Smith of Suff.
1446. v. ELIZABETH Allen 3 , b. Dec. 20, 1666; m. Nov.
14, 1683, Wm. Prichard; she d. June 16, 1694.
1447.* vi. WILLIAM Allen 3 , b. March 12, 1668; d. 1702,
Suffield; m. Dec. 29, 1692, Joannah Dibble.
1448.* vii. BENJAMIN Allen 3 , b. Sept. 1673; m. Oct. 4,
1699, Mercy Towsley.
Other Families 423
1449.* viii. DAVID Allen 3 , b. Feb. 1, 1675-6; m. Nov. 29,
1711, Sarah Grosvenor and removed to New
Jersey.
1450. ix. ABIGAIL Allen 3 , b. March 25, 1678 ; m. Tim-
othy Palmer of Suff.
1451.* x. SAMUEL Allen 3 , b. 1679; d. Nov. 28, 1730; m.
Nov. 22, 1706, Anna Hayward; removed to New
Jersey.
1452. xi. MARTHA Allen 3 , m. July 28, 1696, Sam'l
Kent.
1453. xii. MARY Allen 3 , b. Apr. 9, 1683 ; d. unm. at Dfd.
Oct. 25, 1707.
CALEB Allen 3 b. March 31, 1685; d. Sept. 23,
1761 ; m. 1721, Hannah Eaton.
1454.* xiii. NATHANIEL Allen 3 . Will dated Aug. 21,
1692 in Pa.
Savage says there were "fifteen sons and three daugh-
ters".
(1442). JOHN ALLEN 3 , son of Edward and Sarah (Kim-
ball) Allen, b. 1659; went with his father to Suff., where
he took the oath of allegiance Jan.. 30, 1678, and had a
grant of 40 acres Aug. 1685. All of his large family but
one escaped in the attack of the Indians of Feb. 29, 1704,
but on the 11th of May he was killed at the Bars and his
wife was taken and killed in the woods. He m. Feb. 22,
1682, Elizabeth, dau. of William Prichard of Ipswich and
Brookfield. Children :
1455. i. JOHN Allen 4 , b. Dec. 21, 1682; d. Apr. 3, 1683.
1456. ii. JOHN Allen 4 , b. Jan. 14, 1684.
1457. iii. RICHARD Allen 4 , b. Sept. 17, 1685; d. June
1696.
424 SlGGINS AND
1458. iv. ELIZABETH Allen 4 , b. Nov. 4, 1686; m. abt.
1705, Thomas Granger, of Suff.
1459. v. SARAH Jane Allen 4 , b. Jan. 4, 1688; cap.
1704; d. May 14, 1715.
1460. vi. JOSEPH Allen 4 , b. Mar. 28, 1691.
1461. vii. BENJAMIN Allen 4 , b. Apr. 8, 1693.
1462. viii. EBENEZER Allen 4 , b. Aug. 1696.
(1447) WILLIAM ALLEN 5 -, son of Edward and Sarah
(Kimble) Allen; b. 1668; he also had a 40 acre grant at
Suffolk, in 1678; d. Nov. 15, 1711. He m. Dec. 29, 1692,
Joannah Dibble, prob. dau. of Samuel of Simsbury; she
m. 2d (pub. July 5, 1715) David Burt, of Springfield.
Children :
1463. i. WILLIAM Allen 4 ; b. July 28, 1694; school-
master, soldier under Capt. Sam'l Barnard in
Rasle's war ; m. June 15, 1727, Keziah Taylor, of
Spfd.; d. at Wind. Jan. 1, 1732-3, leaving 7
children.
1464. ii. JOANNA Allen 4 ; b. Apr. 21, 1696.
1465. iii. SARAH Allen 4 ; b. Apr. 28, 1699.
1466. iv. SAMUEL Allen 4 ; b. Oct. 8, 1701; sett, in
Brimfield.
1467. v. EBENZER Allen 4 ; b. June 7, 1704.
1468. vi. JOHN Allen ; b. 4 b. Feb. 24, 1706-7.
1469. vii. HEPZIBAH Allen 4 ; b. Mar. 14, 1710-11; d.
Apr. 5, 1711.
1470. viii. EPHRAIM Allen 4 ; b. Apr. 4, 1712, posthu-
mus.
(1448) BENJAMIN ALLEN 3 ; son of Edward and
1471.
i.
1472.
ii.
1473.
iii.
1474.
iv.
1475.
v.
Other Families 425
Sarah (Kimball) Allen, b. 1673, weaver of Spring-field
1717-24 where he is lost sight of. He m. Oct. 4, 1699
Mercy Towsley. Children:
BENJAMIN Allen 4 ; b. Aug. 2, 1700; m. Abi-
gail ; d. Dec. 22, 1720.
EDWARD Allen 4 ; b. Aug. 16, 1701.
JOSEPH Allen 4 .
MERCY Allen 4 ; b. July 16, 1704.
DAVID Allen 4 ; b. June 1, 1706; d. Dec. 29,
1720.
1476. vi. MOSES Allen 4 ; b. May 11, 1709; m. Oct. 11,
1709; m. Oct. 11, 1739, Hannah Miller; d. Dec.
29, 1755.
1477. vii. ARON Allen 4 ; b. Apr. 8, 1711.
(1449) DAVID ALLEN 3 ; son of Edward and Sarah
(Kimball) Allen; b. 1675, weaver; removed to Hanover,
N. J., abt. 1720. He m. Nov. 29, 1711.
Sarah Grosvenor. Children:
1478.* i. DAVID Allen 4 ; b. Feb. 9, 1713.
1479. ii. ADONIRAM Allen 4 ; b. Mar. 8, 1714-15.
1480. iii. JOHN Allen 4 ; b. Mar. 15, 1716-17.
(1451) SAMUEL ALLEN'; son of Edward and Sarah
(Kimball) Allen; b. 1679; d. Nov. 28, 1730; m. Nov. 22,
1706.
Ann HayWard; removed to Hanover, New Jersey, about
1711, where he was a deacon. Children:
1481. i. SAMUEL Allen 4 ; b. Sept. 3, 1707.
1482. ii. JOB Allen 4 ; b. Nov. 20, 1709.
1483. iii. ANN Allen 4 ; b. Apr. 4, 1712.
426 SlGGINS AND
1484. iv. MARTHA Allen* ; b. Sept. 19, 1714.
1485. v. JONAH Allen*; b. Jan. 20, 1716.
(1478) DAVID ALLEN 4 , b. in Northampton, Mass.;
removed about 1743, to Monmouth Co., N. J., where he ac-
quired a large tract of land lying along the north shore
of Squaw River; was a man of great energy, and as a
pioneer laid the foundation of Monmouth County, which at
that time included what is now known as Ocean County, on
the south side of Squaw River.
Children :
1486. i. ADAM Allen 5 .
1487. ii. SAMUEL Allen 1 , b. 1757 in Monmouth Co.,
N. J., soldier; m. 1776 Elizabeth Fleming; at
the beginning of the war of the Revolution al-
though but eighteen years of age, he raised a
company of "Minute Men" whose self imposed
duty was to guard the Jersey shore from Sandy
Hook to Cape May. (See "American Ancestry,"
Vol. VIII, pp. 107-8). He died 1830 and was
buried on his own farm by the side of his wife
who died 30 years previous. Their son:
1488. i. SAMUEL Fleming Allen 6 , b. July 21,
1791, in Monmouth Co., N. J.; m. May 4,
1828, Phoeby Gobell; was a soldier in the
the war of 1812, Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, and several times elected to
both branches of the State Legislature ; re-
moved to New York in 1846, where he died
in 1882, at the age of 91. Children:
1489. i. ETHAN Allen 7 , of New York City;
lawyer and soldier ; b. May 12, 1836, in
Monmouth Co., N. J. ; m. Aug. 20, 1861,
Eliza Clagett, daughter of Darius Clag-
ett and Providence (Dorsey) Bryce of
Washington, D. C. Mr. Allen was grad-
1490.
ii.
1491.
iii.
1492.
iv.
Other Families 427
uated from Brown University in 1860,
and was class orator, entered the N. Y.
University of Law School, from which
he was graduated in 1861, at which time
he was made valedictorian ; immediately
commenced the practice of law and the
same year was appointed deputy U. S.
District Attorney for the Southern Dis-
trict of N. Y. Soon after the breaking
out of the Civil War, he tendered his
resignation for the purpose of accepting
an appointment on the staff of Gen.
Banks; the District Attorney declined
to accept his resignation and appealed
to Secretary of War Stanton to prevent
Mr. Allen from entering the army, as
his services were of more importance
to the government in the position he
then held. Soon after he received au-
thority from Gov. Morgan of N. Y. to
raise a regiment for the service, and for
the time was commissioned Colonel;
raised 1,600 men, which afterward ren-
dered important services in the south-
west, continued his connection with the
District Attorney's office until 1869,
when he resigned and commenced the
practice of law on his own account. He
was one of the organizers of the Society
of the Revolution and was one of the
early members of the Union League.
Retired from his profession in 1880 and
made and extensive tour abroad.
JOHN H. Allen 7 .
CHARLES Franklin Allen 7 .
ARON C. Allen 7 .
428 SlGGlNS AND
1493. v. THEODORE Freelinghuysen Allen 7 ,
were all in active service during the
Civil War.
(American Ancestry, Vol. 8, pp. 107-8).
Joel Munsel's Sons.
Eliza (Clagett) Allen, is descended from the Brice fam-
ily. John Brice was born Haversham, England, 1670;
d. Annapolis, Mr., Dec, 1713; m. Dec. 16, 1701 in Anne
Arundel Co., Md., Sarah Howard, widow of Capt. John
Worthington, daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Dorsey)
Howard.
DAVID ALLEN.
In the Journal of American History, Vol. 3, 1909, p. 297,
is an interesting article by Col. Ethan Allen, former Deputy
District Attorney in New York, grandson of Captain Sam-
uel Allen, of the American Revolution — Recruiting Colonel
for the army during the Civil War — President of the Cuban
League during the Spanish War, regarding hs grandfather,
Captan Samuel Allen, in which he states: "Samuel Allen
was born in 1757 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and
was only eighteen years old when the "shot fired round the
world" was fired at Lexington, and re-echoed at Bunker's
Hill. He was one of an old and honored family who had
crossed the seas and made a home in New England at a
period almost as remote as when the Pilgrim Fathers land-
ed, and a descendant of which family DAVID by name went
over into New Jersey and settled on Manna-Squan, or Squan
River, Monmouth County, about the year 1740, and here,
in a then wild and unsettled territory, obtained possession
of vast tracts of land.
Other Families 429
One son of DAVID, named Adam, long before the Revo-
lution, left New Jersey and located in Virginia, on the James
River, and a large family of Aliens in the Old Dominion
is left to represent him. Another son, Samuel Allen, a
Quaker by religious profession, and lame from his birth,
father of Captain Samuel Allen, of whom I write, inherited
from his father DAVID, on the north shore of Squan River
a tract of land miles in extent, which, being by this time
extensively under cultivation, placed the owner among the
richest landed proprietors of the country. When the Revo-
lution became rampant it found Captain Samuel Allen a
youth of eighteen and feudal lord among his people because
of his vast estate in land — burning with all the fire of ad-
venture which had brought his remote ancestors from Eng-
land to the weird coast of Massachusetts, and those less
remote from New England to New Jersey." * * *
"Captain (Samuel) Allen, in 1776, married Elizabeth
Fleming, of a famly of ancent Scotch renoun, she died
1800, and he in 1830, and was placed to rest under a favorite
tree upon his own farm."
"Stephen Fleming and Jacob Fleming (brothers of Eliz-
abeth (Fleming) Allen, were captains in the United States
troops, and served through the entire war. Stephen Flem-
ing settled in Kentucky."
CARY ALLEN.
"In the congregation of Rev. Samuel Davies, in Honover
Co. (Va.), were five brothers of the name of Allen. Soon
after Mr. Davies left Virginia these brothers with others
of the congregation, sought locations in the more fertile
lands along the frontiers, and made their homes on Great
Guinea, in Cumberland. Four of these brothers successive-
ly became Elders in the church in Cumberland County of
which they were in part founders. DANIEL ALLEN,
430 SlGGINS AND
by his wife, Miss Harrison, had ten children, of which Cary
Allen was the eighth, b. 1767. For his second wife he
married the widow of Joseph Hill, with five children, Mrs.
Joanna Hill. Her fourth child was William, from whom,
through Dr. Hill of Winchester, very many of these cir-
cumstances concerning the life of Cary Allen have been
preserved to the public. * * * The first tour of mis-
sionary service in that part of Virginia now embraced in
the State of Kentucky, was performed by Mr. Allen and
Robert Marshall, under the commission in 1791. In the
spring of 1794, Mr. Allen removed to Kentucky in prepara-
tion for a permanent residence west of the Alleghenys. He
was married to a daughter of Col. Fleming of Botetourt.
Early in the spring, having accepted the call from Silver
Creek and Paint Creek, Mr. Allen removed to Kentucky.
On the 5th of August, 1795, he breathed his last, being
in his twenty-ninth year, leaving a wife and one child, a
daughter. His grave is in a burying ground near Danville,
marked by head and foot stones, erected in 1823 by the Pres-
bytery of Transylvania.
(From Foote's Sketches of Va., 2nd S., pp. 223-235.)
BENJAMIN Allen; in 1734 with Riley Moore and Wil-
liam White, removed from Monocacy in Maryland and
settled on the north branch of Shenandoah, about twelve
miles south of Wodstock.
(Foote's, p. 15.)
Other Families 431
(1444) EDWARD ALLEN 3 , son of Edward and Sarah
(Kimball) Allen; b. May 1, 1662; d. 1740, in Deerfield; m.
in New Jersey:
MERCY PAINTER. (The mother of Mercy Painter,
Edward Allen's wife, was a Lamberton — a name which
stands forth prominently in the early history of New
Haven.)
He returned to New England and settled with his brother
John in Deerfield, at "The Bars" in 1686. Edward Allen
was among the earliest of those who renewed the settlement
of Deerfield after the close of King Philip's War. His name
on the proprietors records, as the purchaser of a right,
in 1686. The purchase of his older brother entered as
John Allen, Gent., had been made before the war in 1671.
The family has won a place in local history, by the large
share it bore in the calamities inflicted on Deerfield in In-
dian Warfare. In 1704 John Allen and his wife were shot
down near their own home. Children :
1494.* i WILLIAM Allen 4 , bpt. 1684, in New Jersey;
removed to Pennsylvania.
1495. ii. ELIZABETH Allen 4 , b. Mar. 11, 1687-8).
1496. iii. MERCY Allen 4 , b. Feb. 3, 1689; m. Apr. 8,
1708, Peter Evans, who settled in Nfd.
1497. iv. SARAH Allen 4 , b. May 1, 1692.
1498. v. MARTHA Allen 4 , b. Nov. 6, 1694; m.
Samuel Bardwell.
1499. vi. JEMIMA Allen 4 , b. Feb. 4, 1696-7 ; m. March
1, 1715.
1500. vii. HANNAH Allen 4 , b. Feb. 12, 1698-9 ; m. Aug.
25, 1735, John Stebbins.
His 2nd wife:
1501. viii. CONSIDER Allen 4 , b. May 8, 1701; d. May
26, 1701.
432 SlGGINS AND
1502. ix. SAMUEL Allen 4 , b. 1701, killed by the In-
dians 1746.
Children of Samuel Allen 4 :
1503. i. CALEB Allen 5 , lived and died at "The
Bars."
1504. ii. SAMUEL Allen 5 ; captured by the In-
dians, afterwards in the Revolutionary
army (Captain under Shays).
1505. iii. EUNICE Allen 5 .
1506. iv. LAMBERTON Allen 5 ; was the settler of
Grand Isle; m. Belding.
1507.* v. ENOCH Allen 5 ; m. Belding; he d.
1789, at the age of forty-five in Ashf ield ; his
children were:
1509.
i.
ENOCH Allen 6 .
1510.
ii.
ABISHAI Allen 6 .
1511. *
iii.
HEMAN Allen , t
Dec. 11, 1844.
1512.
iv.
ARETAS Alien'.
1513.
v.
OBED Allen".
1514.
vi.
MERCY Allen 6 .
1515.
vii.
EUNICE Allen 6 .
1516.
viii.
JOEL Allen 6 .
(1511) HEMAN ALLEN 6 , b. June 14, 1777 ; d. Dec. 11,
1844 ; m. Dec. 4, 1804, Sarah Prentis, dau. of Dr. Jonathan
Prentis, of St. Albans. She died Dec. 1, 1850.
Children :
1517. i. HEMAN Allen 7 , d. ; a freshman in the Uni-
versity of Vermont.
1518. ii. LUCIUS Allen 7 , died at the age of 19.
Other Families 433
1519. iii. GEORGE Allen 7 , now (1867) Professor of
Greek and Latin in the University of Pennsyl-
vania, Philadelphia.
1520. iv. SARAH Allen 7 , m. Rev. John K. Converse of
Burlington.
1521 - v. Allen 7 , d. in infancy.
1522. vi. CHARLES P. Allen 7 , of Port Kent, N. Y.
1523. vii. JOSEPH W. Allen 7 , of Milton.
1524. viii. JULIA Allen 7 , d. at the age of 11 years.
1525. ix. JAMES Allen 7 , of Montreall, Canada East.
434 SlGGINS AND
PAINTER FAMILY.
Among the names listed as "Arrivals between 1682 and
1688" in Pennsylvania we find:
"George Painter and Ellinor, his wife, late of Haverford
West in Pembrokeshire, in South Wales, Husbandmand,
came in ye "Unicorne" of Bristow, Tho: Cooper Mr.; ar-
rived here ye 31, 8 mo. 1683: Children, Susan and Geo.
Painter : servants Lewis 4 years Cloathes
2 years & wages ye last two years; Jannet Umphries, 4
years."
(Hist, of Chester Co., Pa., p. 23.)
Other Families 435
LAMBERTON.
Lamberton is a very ancient name, and is found as far
back as the eleventh century. It occurs in Scotland, among
the land holders of Ayrshire and Berwick-On-Tweed, 1097-
1107, in the reign of King Edgar. John de Lamberton, was
sheriff of Sterling from 1263 to 1265. The arms of the
Lamberton family are: Arms: Argent, three escalloped
sheels, sable. Crest: a stag's head at gaze, St. Andrew's
cross between the attires. Motto: Volonte de Dieu. As
the arms would indicate, the early members of the family
probably took part in the crusades. During the religious
persecution under the Stuarts, the Covenanters were mal-
treated and harrassed until they were obliged to leave their
own country and seek homes in Ireland. Among those to
seek refuge in Ireland it is said, were three brothers by
the name of Lamberton. One of these settled at the Giant's
Causeway, the second near Londonderry, and the third in
the same county. The Lambertons of Pennsylvania trace
their lineage from the second of these whose name is said
to have been James.
(Allegheny Valley, Pa., Vol. II, p. 465.)
1526. WILLIAM LAMBERTON, Robert 2 , James 1 , b. 1773 ;
d. March 2, 1849 ; m.
Elizabeth Gilfillan, who d. 1849. Children:
1527.* i. ROBERT Lamberton 4 , b. Mch. 20, 1809, on an
old farm on the banks of the Foyle, about six
miles from Londonderry, in county Derry, Ire-
land. On reaching his majority emigrated to
America, reached Franklin, Venango Co., Penn-
sylvania, July 10, 1830, where he resided until
his death, Aug. 7, 1885. He m. April 6, 1837,
436 SlGGINS AND
Margaret Seaton, b. Feb. 4, 1815, in Westmore-
land Co., Pa., dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth
(Mavis) Seaton.
1528. ii. JANE Lamberton 4 , married 1st.,
Jared Irwin; m. 2d.,
Dr. Bushnell of Ohio.
1529. iii. JOHN Lamberton 4 , remained in Ireland and d.
there.
1530.* iv. JAMES Gilfillan Lamberton 1 , b. March 21,
1818; d. Dec. 25, 1903.
1531. v. WILLIAM Lamberton 4 , m.
Sarah Smullen, resided in Venango Co.
1532. vi. ANN Lamberton 4 , m.
James Shannon, resided in Franklin.
1533. vii. ESTHER Lamberton 4 , m.
John Mitchell, settled in Philadelphia.
1534. viii. ELIZA Lamberton 4 , m.
William Cunningham, settled in Philadelphia.
1535. ix. MARTHA Lamberton 4 , m. 1st.,
Samuel Cochran, 2d.
William Neely.
(1527) Children of Robert 4 and Margaret (Seaton)
Lamberton.
1536. i. WILLIAM John Lamberton 3 , b. Jan. 9, 1838;
m. April 29, 1869,
Sarah L. Raymond.
1537. ii. ELIZABETH A. Lamberton 5 , b. Sept. 19, 1839;
m. Nov. 30, 1858,
Hon. Calvin W. Gilfillan.
1538. iii. LEWIS Thomas Lamberton 5 , b. May 2, 1841 ;
m. Oct. 7, 1862;
Martha A. Mithcell.
Other Families 437
1539. iv. SAMUEL Harkness Lamberton-, b. Dec. 21,
1844; m. Sept. 12, 1868,
Ann Eliza Smith.
1540.* v. ROBERT Gilfillan Lamberton 5 , b. Feb. 14,
1848.
1541. vi. MARION Lamberton, b. Sept. 26, 1850; d. in
infancy.
1542. vii. MARGARET Jane Lamberton', b. June 10,
1852; m. Oct. 6, 1876;
George P. Hukill.
1543. viii. EDWIN Houston Lamberton"', b. Oct. 21, 1854;
m. Sept. 16, 1885 ;
Annie Carrie Kirker.
1544. ix. HARRY Lamberton 5 , b. Feb. 13, 1858; m.
Feb. 17, 1886,
Virginia Ella Hugho.
(1540) ROBERT GILFILAN LAMBERTON 5 , m. 1st
Dec. 30, 1873,
Luella Chess who d. Nov. 10, 1877; he m. 2d. Oct.
21, 1880,
Jessie King Judson, dau. of Dr. William and Cla-
rissa (King) Judson. Children of 1st. m.
1545. i. BERTHA C. Lamberton 6 , b. March 8, 1875;
m. State Senator Charles Mann Hamilton of New
York.
1546. ii. CHESS Lamberton 6 , b. Nov. 1, 1877; Cashier
of Lamberton bank of Franklin.
Children of 2d m.
1547. iii. GEORGE J. Lamberton 6 , b. Jan. 9, 1882; edu-
cated in the schools of Franklin, Pa. and Review
Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
graduating from the latter, 1900. In that year
entered Princeton University, but did not com-
plete his senior year. After a trip through the
438 SlGGINS AND
western states returned to Franklin, and now
holds position as cashier. He m. Oct. 27, 1909,
Helen Elizabeth, dau. of Albert George and Susan
(Jamison) Elvin.
1547a. iv. ROBERT Lamberton 6 , b. May 4, 1886; m.
Myra Morehead Plumer, and had
i. ROBERT G. Plumer Lamberton 7 .
Other Families 439
JUDSON FAMILY.
SETH JUDSON, was a native of Connecticut. He m.
Mary Dewy. Children:
i. EUNICE Judson.
ii. WILLIAM Judson, b. Sept. 7, 1807 at Woodbury,
bury, Conn.; m. Feb. 12, 1839;
Clarissa King, dau. of Thomas, gr. dau. of Robert
King, one of the early settlers of Erie county.
iii. SOPHIA Judson, m.
Col. Irwin Camp, of Erie.
iv. MARRIETTA Judson, m.
Dr. H. W. Vincent.
v. CHARLOTTE Judson.
William Judson, the immigrant ancestor of the Con-
necticut family was born in England, Yorkshire tradition
says, and came to America in 1634, to Concord, Mass..
where he lived four years. Then he located at Hartford,
Conn., and in 1639 settled at Stratford, Conn. His will was
dated Dec. 21, 1661, and he died before Dec. 15, 1662, the
daye of inventory. His wife Grace died at New Haven,
Sept. 29, 1659, and he m. 2d. Elizabeth Wilmot, wid. of
Benjamin Wilmot. She d. in Feb., 1682. Children, b. in
England: Joseph, b. 1619, Jeremiah, Joshua.
440 SlGGINS AND
SEATON FAMILY.
JAMES SEATON, lived at Drayton, Tyrone, Ireland and
had a large family ; of these :
i. GEORGE Seaton, m. Nancy Amberson and emi-
grated to America about 1778 and settled in the
Ligonier Valley, near Greensburg; was a Capt.
in the Revolution, the company in which he
served belonged to Layfayette's division, after
the war he settled in Westmoreland county, and
had twelve children ; John, William, Robert, Eli-
zabeth, Thomas m. Elizabeth Mavis; Jackson,
George, Amberson, Jane, Mary, Nancy, and
Martha.
ii. THOMAS Seaton, Lieutenant in the same Co., in
which his brother served.
iii. ALEXANDER Seaton, served as sergeant in the
same company. Came to America at, or about
the same time as his brothers.
Other Families 441
EVLIN FAMILY.
FRANK EVLIN, of Peru, Indiana ; m.
Helen Elizabeth Brodrick. Children:
i. ALBERT George Evlin, b. Feb. 26, 1865, North
Vernon, Ind. ; m. Jan., 1887:
Sue Cole Jamison, dau. of Henry and Elizabeth
(Culbertson) Jamison. Children:
i. HELEN Elizabeth Elvin, m.
George J. Lamberton.
ii. IRMA Jamison Elvin.
iii. RUTH Minor Jamison,
ii. ANNA Evlin, m. Britton Runyan.
iii. FREDERICK Evlin, m. Florence Taylor.
(1530) JAMES GILFILLAN LAMBERTON 5 , Robert 2 ,
James 1 , was born on the old homestead, near Londonderry,
Derry County, Ireland, March 21, 1818, and died in Frank-
lin, Pa., Dec. 25, 1903. He emigrated to this country and
settled in Franklin, where he became a prominent mer-
chant; for forty-five years (from 1842-1887), he conducted
a large drygoods store, in that city. He was a trusted and
active member of the Presbyterian church for many years.
He married 'Anna M. daughter of William and Elizabeth
Whiting, of Chester County, Pa. Children:
1548. i. HENRY Whiting Lamberton 4 , b. 1853, in
Franklin; m. Dec. 7, 1897,
Effie, dau. of George and Catherine (Wilhelm)
Hemphil, no ch.
1549. ii. MARY Jane Lamberton 4 , b. Feb., 1855; m.
James N. Craft and had:
442 SlGGINS AND
1550. i. GEORGE L. Craft 5 .
1551. ii. ANNA Craft 5 ; m.
J. G. Smith a merchant of Warren, Pa. and
had:
1552. i. HORTON Smith 6 .
1553. iii. CHARLES McGill Lamberton\ b. Feb., 1857,
Cashier of the Lamberton National Bank of Oil
City, Pa.
Other Families 443
HON. CALVIN GILFILLAN.
He is one of the oldest surviving members of the Venan-
go county bar although during the past quarter of a century
he has not been in active practice. He was born in Mercer
county, Pennsylvania in 1832. He is son of James and Jane
(Adams) Gilfillan the oldest settlers of that county, having
located there in 1797. Mr. Gilfillan obtained his education
at the public schools and Westminster college, at New Wil-
mington, Pa. He read law with William Stewart, Esq., of
Mercer and was admitted to the bar in 1859. In 1857 he
was superintendent of the Mercer county schools and
served as transcribing clerk in the House of Representa-
tives during the session of 1858-9. He was appointed dis-
trict attorney of Venango county in 1861 and elected to the
same office in 1862. In the latter year he formed a law
partnership with Hon. Charles E. Taylor, which was dis-
solved in 1867. In 1873 he retired from active service to ac-
cept the presidency of the Lamberton Savings bank. He is
a staunch republican and in 1868 served his party as con-
gressman, having been chosen to that honorable position by
a large majority. He was a delegate to the National Re-
publican convention of 1870, and in 1880 was one of the
electoral college that placed Garfield in the chair. He
organized the Austin National Bank, of Austin, Texas, in
1890, and was its first president. He married Nov. 8, 1858,
Elizabeth, dau. of Robert and Margaret (Seaton) Lamber-
ton, they were the parents of:
1554.
1555.
1556.
1557.
ANNIE M. Gilfillan 6 .
i. ROBERT E. Gilfillan .
ii. WILLIAM L. Gilfillan
v. EMMA M. Gilfillan 6 .
444 SlGGINS AND
GEORGE LAMBERTON, OF NEW HAVEN.
1558. The first Swedish settlements on the Delaware
were made about 1638 near the present site of Wilming-
ton, it was called "New Sweden" with John Printz as Gov-
ernor. In the Spring of 1641, George Lamberton, a mer-
chant of New Haven sent a party under Robert Cogswell
to buy property and form two settlements, one on the
Schuylkill, and the other near where Salem now stands.
After many difficulties with the Swedes, Lamberton was
finally commissioned by Governor Winthrop to treat with
Printz touching the rights of each; matters were finally
settled amicably. Savage says of him "George Lamberton,
New Haven, 1641, probably merchant from London, was
one of the chief inhabitants employed, 1643, in projecting
a settlement at Delaware, but (was) resisted by Swedes
who vindicated their rights. He left widow Margaret
Children :
1559.* i. MERCY Lamberton 2 , bapt. Jan. 17, 1641; m.
Thomas Painter. Their dau. MERCY PAINTER 3 ,
b. abt. 1662, m. abt. 1683, Edward Allen No.
1444.
1560. ii. DESIRE Lamberton 2 , bapt. Mar. 13, 1642 ; m.
1659, Thomas Cope, Jr.
1561. iii. HANNAH Lamberton 2 ; m. 1st.
Samuel Wells of Weathersfield, she m. 2d.,
Col. John Allyn of Hartford, eldest son of Mathew
Allyn of Windsor. She survived him, his death
occurred Nov. 6, 1696. His first wife was Anne,
dau. of Henry Smith, and grand daughter of
William Pynchon of Springfield, by whom
6 daughters.
Other Families 445
1563. iv. OBEDIENCE Lamberton 2 , bapt. Feb. 9, 1645 ;
m. 1676,
Samuel Smith.
1564. v. ELIZABETH Lamberton 2 , who m. 1645,
Daniel Sillevant.
There was a Thomas Lamberton at Jamaica, L. I., 1686.
Margaret, widow of George Lamberton, m. 2d. Deputy
Gov. Stephen Goodyear.
(New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. Vol. XXIII, p. 173. Vol.
IX, p. 360.)
Thomas Painter had a lot transferred to him by Roger
Williams at Providence, (R. I.) 1638.
(New Eng. Hist., Gen. Reg., Vol. XIV, p. 168.)
(1454 ) NATHANIEL ALLEN 3 , son of Edward and
Sarah (Kimball) Allen of Bocks Co., Pennsylvania, m.
his will is dated Aug. 21, 1692. Children:
1565. i. NEHEMIAH Allen 4 , married and had,
1566. i. NATHANIEL Allen 5 .
1567. ii. NEHEMIAH Allen 5 .
1568. ii. LYDIA Allen 4 ; m.
Thomas Prior.
(1494) WILLIAM ALLEN 4 , Edward 1 , Edward 2 , Ed-
ward 1 ; b. ; d. ; m. Mary Budd, dau. of
Thomas and Martha Budd, of Philadelphia.
Children :
1569.* i. WILLIAM Allen 5 , Chief Justice of Pennsyl-
vania; m. Feb. 16, 1733 (O. S.) :
1570. Margaret Hamilton, dau. of Andrew Hamilton ;
he died Sept., 1780, in England.
1571. ii. JOHN Allen 5 .
446 SlGGINS AND
1572.* iii. JAMES Allen 5 , b. 1716, in Pennsylvania; d.
1810; m. about 1735, Margaret Anderson (No.
1820).
1573. iv. THOMAS Allen 5 .
1574. v. HUGH Allen 5 , m. Jane Anderson.
The names of the other children of William and Mary
(Budd) Allen are not known. Some authorities state
"Others died young."
William Allen ( ) emigrated to Virginia about 1735, he
was one of the earliest settlers of Augusta County, Virginia.
Hayden in his "Virginia Genealogies" p. 457, says : "About
the year 1735 William Hoge removed from Pennsylvania
and settled upon the Opeckon 3 miles S. of Winchester,
Virginia (Frederick Co.). Opekon meeting house stands
on his tract of land. The families of Glass, Vance, ALLEN,
Colvin and White and others soon joined him and formed
the Opecon congregation, the oldest west of the Blue Ridge."
(Sketches of Va. S. I. p. 102.)
The only information we have regarding William Allen
is that he was styled "Merchant," the place or date of his
death or the record of will has not been found. His son
William did not accompany him to Virginia, but remained
in Pennsylvania where he became a distinguished citizen
and Chief Justice of that state. His son James (with his
wife, Margaret Anderson), settled in Virginia and served
as Captain of Militia in 1756 and participated in the battle
of Point Pleasant.
(1574) Hugh Allen 5 and John Allen 5 were born in
Virginia, John Allen, it is said, was a lieutenant at Brad-
dock's defeat, and was "lost" in that disaster. Hugh was a
lieutenant in Col Charles Lewis' regiment at Point Pleasant,
in 1774. He was killed in the battle and his body was
buried by the side of Col. Lewis' remains. He had three
sons:
1575. i. JOHN Allen s ,
Other Families 447
1576. ii. WILLIAM Allen 6 ,
1577. iii. HUGH Allen 6 , all of whom removed to Ken-
tucky.
The widow of Lieutenant Hugh Allen, whose maiden name
was Jane Anderson, contracted a second marriage in 1778
with William Craig, born 1750 and died in 1829. The chil-
dren of William and Jane (Anderson) Craig, a widow
of Hugh Allen, who lived to maturity were: 1, Jane, wife
of James Patterson of Augusta ; 2, James Craig, of Mt.
Meridian, d. 1863 ; 3, Sarah, wife of James Laird, of Rock-
ingham; and, 4, Margaret, last wife of James Bell, of
Augusta.
(1571) James Allen 1 , lived near the place now called
"Willow Spout," on the McAdamized road about eight miles
north of Staunton. As we have seen he was captain of
militia in 1756. He participated in the battle of Point
Pleasant, saw his brother Hugh killed, and placed a stone
to mark his grave. He died in 1810, ninety-four years of
age, having been an elder of Augusta Stone Church for
sixty-four years.
448 SlGGINS AND
BUDD FAMILY.
"The successors of the Dutch West India Company in
1660 purchased of the Indians the island called Manussing,
or Mennewies. The deed of sale bears date June 29, 1660.
By another deed dated 22 May 1661 the Indians sold land
on the main to Peter Disbrow. The following year the
Indians Shawannorocot and Rumkue made a further grant
of territory "Know all men whom this may concern that
we, Peter Disbrow, John Coe, Thomas Studwell, and John
Budd have bargained, bought and paid for to the satisfac-
tion of Showannowocot, &c &c — a certain tract of land
above Weschester path, to the marked trees &c &c. Dated
June 2, 1662; April 28, 1663, Peter Disbrow, John Coe,
Thomas Studwell and John Budd, by a deed of sale con-
veyed the Island and main land to the following planters:
Samuel Allen, Richard Low, Philip Galpin, Thomas Apple-
by, William Odell, John Bro.ndig and John Coe, &c &c — On
the west shore of the Mill Creek extends the ancient terri-
tory of Apawquammis, afterwards named Budd's neck —
from John Budd the first grantee of these lands under the
Indians A. D. 1661. In 1639, the name of John Budd oc-
curs in the New Haven records as one of the first planters
of that place. He subsequently removed to Southhold Long
Island, from whence he came to Rye in 1661. In 1663 John
Budd was deputy from Rye for the general court of Con-
necticut. John Budd, proprietor of Budd's neck, by his
last will dated the 13th of October, 1669, bequeathed to his
son John, all his part of the mill on Blindbrook, and to his
son Joseph, the Epawquammis lands, Joseph Budd was
the first patentee of Budd's or Rye neck, under the crown,
in 1720, &c &c — John Budd released this portion of his
patrimonial estate, including Pine Island, Marees neck and
Henn Island, to Peter Jay A. D. 1745.
(Hist, of the Co. of Westchester, by Bolton.)
Other Families 449
"In the Town of Westchester occurs the following entry :
"Baptised by Mr. John Barton, rector of Westchester
Parish, in the parish church in the town aforesaid, the
eight of August 1708 Sarah Budd, the wife of Joseph Budd
of Rye, in the county of Westchester, and their son Joseph
Budd, aged eleven months.
(Hist, of Westchester, by Bolton.)
JOHN BUDD of Southold, Long Island; married Cath-
erine , and had John Budd of Southold — first pro-
prietor of Apawquannuis of Budd's neck 1661 ; will dated
13 Oct. 1669 ; married and left issue two sons, 1 John Budd,
to whom his father bequeathed all his portion of the mills
on Blind brook — 1671-2. Joseph, first patentee of Budd's
neck under the crown, 20 Feb. 1695. will dated 1722 ; Sur-
rogate's office N. Y. Vol. VIII. 311. Joseph ,married Sarah
— j and had John who married Mary Strang, by whom
he had Gilbert, M. D., and John who left a son John and
daughter Mary who married Gilbert Theal. 2 Joseph who
married Ann leaving Joseph Nicholas, Underhill,
Anne and Sarah, the wife of John Que of Dutches. The will
of Joseph, Sen., is dated 1763.
3. Elisha, b. 1705 ; d. 1765, will dated 1765, No. XXV
252 married Ann Lyon who d. Dec. 6, 1760-aet. 60. The
children were Jonathan, James, Merriam, Sarah, who mar-
ried Purdy, Ann, who married Brown,
and Pheobe;
4. Underhill, proprietor of Budd's neck died April 29,
bapt. May 1708, will dated 1755, lib. XIX 280 ; married Sarah
Fowler, b. June 17, 1710; married Sept. 17, 1730; d. Aug.
19, 1798. Their children were Colonel Gilbert, who d. 7th
Sept. 1813 and left two daughters, Ophelia and Sarah, b.
July 22, 1782; Sarah b. July 22, 1731; Mary b. Dec. 30,
1746 ; d. 1786 ; Tamar, married Ebenezer Haviland, M. D.,
and Hetty, married William Coleman.
5. Gilbert, who died Oct. 14, 1805.
450 SlGGINS AND
6. Hannah, who married Palmer.
7. Sarah.
8. Anne.
9. Tamar.
10. Mary.
(Westchester by Bolton, Vol. 2, p. 509.)
THOMAS BUDD 1 , probably a son of John of L. I. ; d. in
Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1677-8.
Susannah ( ) Budd, his wife, d. Feb. 4, 1707-8.
Four children survive:
i JOHN Budd 2 , m. Rebecca Baynton and had ten or
more children of whom :
i. MARY Budd 3 , m. Peter Baynton.
ii. SARAH Budd 3 , m. John Murray.
iii. JOHN Budd 3 , m. Rosanna Shivers, dau. of
Samuel Shivers of Gloucester Co., N. J.
ii. THOMAS Budd 2 , who m. Martha — , and
was buried Sept. 19, 1699.
(1494) iii. MARY Budd 2 , m. William Allen, merchant of
Philadelphia and had with others :
*i. WILLIAM Allen 3 .
ii. JOHN Allen 3 .
iii. JAMES Allen 3 .
iv. THOMAS Allen 3 . .
v. HUGH Allen 3 .
iv. ROSE J. Budd 2 , m. 1st, George Plumley and had is-
sue; m. 2nd John McWilliams, and 3rd, Joseph
Other Families 451
Shippen (son of Edward Shippen, Mayor of
Philadelphia).
(Pa. Mag. Vol. 10, p. 124.)
Will of Denham Hunlock of Chelsea, Merchant Tailor, 25
June, 1677:
"To my grand child John Allen, one hundred pounds. To
Mr. Budd that married Sarah Allen, to her children twenty
pounds in plate.
(Gen. Gl. in Eng. by Waters, p. 1045.)
Christopher Young of Wrentham, Mass., left a will dated
9 June 1647. He directs his three children to be sent to
their native country, Great Yarmouth Norfolk, England,
but our courts decided otherwise. He names father-in-law
Richard Elvin of Gt. Yarmouth, and his wife to whom he
bequeaths his two daughters ; his son to John Phillips of
Wrentham; sisters the wives of Joseph Young and Thomas
Moore. His children were Sarah, Mary, Christopher (the
latter bapt. 1644), Esdras Reed of Wrentham, Wm. Brown
of Salem and the wife of Joseph Young executors. The son
Christopher, I suppose married Mary Budd, and had sons
Christopher and John. The younger Christopher of South-
hold was son of Rev. John Young, the pastor there, and
born in America.
(Waters Gen. Gl. in England, p. 1411.)
Thomas Budd was a magistrate at Burlington in 1681-2.
(Hist. Chester Co. p. 19.)
452 SlGGINS AND
SHIPPEN FAMILY.
WILLIAM SHIPPEN 1 of Prestbury, Cheshire, England,
had a brother Robert who was vice chancelor of the academy
of Oxford.
Edward Shippen 2 belonged to the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company in 1671, then thirty years old; many of
his children died in their youth, those who lived to mature
years were: Edward, b. Oct. 2, 1674; Joseph, b. Feb. 28,
1679; and Ann, b. June 17, 1684. He married 2nd July 15,
1688, at Newport, Rebecca, widow of Francis Richardson,
and his 3rd wife was Eliza, widow of Thomas James of
Bristol.
JOSEPH SHIPPEN, b. Feb. 28, 1679; married 1702,
Abigail, dau. of Thomas Gross, and had Edward 4 , b. July
9, 1703, father of Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; removed
to Philadelphia 1704 and had 5 more children and was
married a second time.
"EDWARD SHIPPEN, the younger son of William Ship-
pen of Prestbury, Cheshire, was born at the family seat,
Hillham, Yorkshire, England, in 1639. He was bred to
mercantile pursuits and in 1668 moved to Boston. Here
he seems to have been very successful, for, in 1687, he is
mentioned as one of the principal taxpayers, and as early
as 1669, as a member of the Ancient and Honorable Ar-
tillery Company. In 1671 he married Elizabeth Lybrand,
a Quakeress, and he seems to have become a member of
that sect, as he suffered with them in their persecution.
In 1693 he was elected Speaker of the Assembly; in 1695
he was chosen member of the Provincial Council by popular
vote and returned every year, at the regular annual elec-
tion. In the charter of Philadelphia he was appointed by
Other Families 453
Penn first Mayor of the city, was President of the Coun-
cil 1702-4 and on the death of Penn's Deputy, Hamilton,
was the head of the Government for a while. He died
in Philadelphia Oct. 2, 1712. His son Edward Shippen-,
was born in Boston Feb. 10, 1677, and died in Philadelphia
1714. A grandson named Edward Shippen- (who was a
son of Joseph Shippen 2 , b. Feb. 28, 1678-9; d. June, 1741),
was born in Boston, July 9, 1703, and died at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, Sep. 25, 1781, while a son of the above Ed-
ward Shippen born at Philadelphia, Feb. 16, 1728-9; died
there April 16, 1806; the last named gentleman was Chief
Justice of Pennsylvania and a distinguished citizen. A
daughter of that Judge Shippen married Benedict Arnold."
(The Corio, Vol. I, p. 110).
EDWARD SHIPPEN', Edward 3 , Joseph 2 , William 1 .
LL.D. Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, born in Philadelphia
1729; completed his legal studies in the Temple, London.
The family of the subject of this notice at the period of
the Revolution, was of the highest respectability, as the de-
scendants still are. He died 1806 ; married Margaret, dau.
of French Francis, Attorney General of Pennsylvania and
of the Lineage of Sir Philip Francis, K. G. C. B.
Children :
i. ELIZABETH Shippen 3 , m. Edward Burd, a Major
in the Continental Army.
ii. SARAH Shippen"', m. Thomas Lea.
iii. EDWARD Shippen"', m. Elizabeth Footman.
iv. MARY Shippen'-, m. Dr. William Mcllvaine.
v. JAMES Shippen"'.
vi. MARGARET Shippen"', b. 1751, Philadelphia, m. as
his second wife BENEDICT ARNOLD, b. Nor-
wich, Conn., Jan. 14, 1741. He was the fourth
of the name, his earliest American ancestors
settled on the Providence Plantations in 1636.
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454 SlGGINS AND
He removed to New Haven, Conn. On Feb. 22,
1767, he married Margaret, daughter of Samuel
Mansfield, who died June 19, 1775; he married
2nd, in 1778, Margaret Shippen, b. about 1751 in
Philadelphia. He died in London June 14, 1801.
After her husband's death and when her chil-
dren were settled in life, Margaret returned to
her native country to die which event took place
at Uxbridge, Mass., Feb. 14, 1834.
(National Cyc. of A. Biog. Vol. VII, p. 353.)
vii. RACHEL Francis Shippen 5 , m. 1st John Relfe, and
2nd, Matthew Pearce.
viii. TURBUTT Francis Shippen 5 , m. Rebecca, only dau.
of Samuel Mifflin, he was a colonel in the British
Army.
ix. PHILIP Shippen 5 , m. Miss Goldsborough, a cousin.
Philip Francis Thomas, late Governor of Mary-
land, was a descendant of the latter.
(Biographical Sketches of the Loyalists of the Rev.
Vol. II, p. 297, by Lorenzo Sabine.)
(1569) WILLIAM ALLEN 5 , Chief Justice of Pennsyl-
vania; b. 1713; d. Sept., 1780, in England, where he had
gone on a visit; m. 16 February, 1733:
(1570) Margaret Hamilton, dau. of Andrew Hamilton.
Children :
1578. i. JOHN ALLEN 6 , was in 1776, a member of the
Provincial Congress of New Jersey, he married
6 April, 1775:
Mary Johnston, dau. of David Johnston, of New
York. He died in February, 1778; leaving two
sons:
1579. i. JOHN Allen 7 .
1580. ii. WILLIAM Allen 7 .
Other Families 455
1581. ii. ANDREW ALLEN 6 , b. 1740 ; was a member
of the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania,
and served in the Council of Safety; he was a
man of great ability, was Attorney General of
Pennsylvania, for many years; in December,
1776, when Howe's Army was expected in Phil-
adelphia; a persecution of all opposed to Inde-
pendence began; he went to England, and died
in London in March, 1825, in his eighty-sixth
year. He married 24 April, 1768 :
Sarah Coxe, dau. of William and Mary (Francis)
Coxe. (Willian was a son of Col. Daniel Coxe,
Chief Justice of New Jersey, and his wife, Sarah
Eckerley, of Philadelphia; Mary Francis was a
dau. of Tench Francis, Atty. Gen. of Pa.) Sarah
Coxe was known as "The beautiful Sallie Coxe,"
she died 1801, in her 70th year. Children:
1582. i. ANDREW Allen 7 , British Consul at Bos-
ton, 1805-1812; d. Clifton, near Bristol,
Eng., 3 December, 1850. He was founder
of the Anchor Club of Philadelphia; m.
Marie Coxe, of Sidney. No children.
1583. ii. ANNA Allen 7 , d. unmarried.
1584. iii. ELIZABETH Allen 7 , d. unmarried.
1585. iv. MARIA Allen 7 , d. unmarried.
1586. v. MARGARET Allen 7 , m. 29 May, 1793 :
George Hammond, the first British Minister
of the United States, after the peace of
1783 ; she died 8 December, 1838 ; their son :
EDMUND Hammond, was created a peer,
his title is "Baron Hamond."
1586. vi. JOHN Penn Allen 7 , b. 25 Oct., 1785, (M.
A. Univ. Oxford) ; d. unmarried.
1587. vii. THOMAS Dawson Allen 7 , twin of John
456 SlGGINS AND
Penn, b. 25 Oct. 1785; (M. A. Univ. Ox-
ford), later a clergyman of Glostershire ;
d. unmarried.
1589. iii. WILLIAM ALLEN 6 , was one of the first Penn-
sylvania officers commissioned by Congress, and
with his regiment served under Montgomery in
the Canadian campaign of 1775. He applied
to Congress for leave to resign, when the Dec-
laration of Independence was passed, which was
granted 24 June, 1776.
1590. iv. MARGARET ALLEN' 1 , m. 19 August, 1771:
James de Lancey, of New York, eldest son of Chief
Justice and the then Governor of New York.
1591. v. JAMES ALLEN 6 , served in the Pennsylvania
Assembly in 1776, as member from Northamp-
ton. He married 10 March, 1768:
Elizabeth Lawrence, dau. of John and Elizabeth
(Francis) Lawrence. Children:
1592. i. JAMES Allen 7 , who d. without issue.
1593. ii. ANN Penn Allen 7 , b. 11 May, 1769; m.
James Greenleaf; 26 April, 1800; d. Sept.,
1851 ; agd. 82.
1594. iii. MARGARET Elizabeth Allen 7 , ( )
m. 1 July, 1794:
William Tiligham, Chief Justice of Penn.
1595. iv. MARY Allen 7 ,m. 27 November, 1796:
Henry Walter Livingston, of Livingston
Manor, N. Y. She died there 11 December,
1855; aged over 80 years; she was long
known in New York Society as Lady Mary.
None of the desecendants of Chief Justice Allen are now
residents of Philadelphia, and the name for more than a
century the synonim in that city, for ability, political power,
great wealth, and high social position, is there no longer
known.
Other Families 457
The man to whom and to whose connections by marriage
she owes her famed "State House," America's Hall of Inde-
pendence, sleeps in a foreign land ; and the names of Allen
and Hamilton of Penn. with which they so long resounded,
are no longer heard within its historic portals." (Penna.
Mag. Vol. I, 1877; pp. 202-211, by Edward F. de Lancey).
"ANDREW HAMILTON, said to have been born about
1676 in Scotland. His parentage is said to have been kept
by him a secret from his- contemporaries, and at one time
he went by the name of Trent. He first came to Virginia,
and as steward of a plantation married the widow of its
owner, and by her influence began the practice of law, and
after his removal to Philadelphia, became attorney-general
and also speaker of the Assembly. His most noted achieve-
ment was his defense of John Peter Zenger, the New York
printer. He died in Philadelphia, 4 August, 1741. His
daughter Margaret married Chief Justice William Allen,
and a granddaughter married John Penn, son of Richard,
the last Proprietary Governor of Pennsylvania."
W. K. Watkins.
(Gen. Gl. in Eng., by Waters, Vol. II, p. 933)
The will of Andrew Hamilton is found in "Genealogical
Gleanings of England," Vol. II, p. 933.
JAMES ALLEN.
Revolutionary Records of James Allen — p. 60. Sec-
tion No. 16. Captain Chas. Allen, Lt. Joseph Parks, and
Ensign James Allen, p. 65. Section No. 24. "Company of-
ficers were Capt. Charles Allen, Lt. Joseph Parks, Ensign
James Allen. Same on p. 68. Section No. 29. Page 102,
Section No. 95.
John Bell. Augusta, Dec. 22, 1834. Born in Au-
458 SlGGINS AND
gusta in Long Glade, Sept 1755. Late in Septem-
ber, 1780, went out as ensign for three months under Capt.
Thomas Smith. Marched from rendezvous at Col. Esam's
to just below Richmond, where he remained till discharged.
No regular troops were there. Early in January, 1781, he
substituted for his brother Francis, thinking the latter too
young to bear the fatigue. Company officers were Captain
Joseph Patterson, Lt. Andrew Anderson, Ensign James
Poage. From former rendezvous marched to Dismal
Swamp where he was discharged in April. In June called
out as Ensign for tour stated as twenty days, his captain
being John Dickey, his lieutenant, Robert Campbell. March-
ing to Jamestown. Was in the battle there and in several
little skirmishes James Allen, Francis Gardner, and John
Crawford, were comrades there and also Samuel Bell.
(Virginia Militia in the Revolution, by McAllister.)
(1572) JAMES ALLEN 5 was the son of William Allen,
who settled in Augusta County, Virginia, but at what date
is unknown. A brother of William was grand-father of Dr.
Allen who long practiced medicine in the Stone Church
neighborhood. Hugh and John Allen were born here, they
married sisters. John Allen — it is said was a lieutenant at
Braddock's defeat, and was lost in that disaster. Hugh was
a lieutenant in Col. Charles Lewis's regiment at Point
Pleasant, in 1774. He was killed in the battle and his body
was buried by the side of Colonel Lewis's remains. He had
three sons, John, William and Hugh, all of Whom removed
to Kentucky.
The widow of Lieutenant Hugh Allen, whose maiden
name was Jane Anderson contracted a second marriage
with William Craig.
Captain James Allen was one of the first elders of the
stone church (in Augusta). Courts Martial record book
gives the names of the captains of militia in 1756. The cap-
tains of foot were, Samuel Norwood, James Allen and
others. Captain Allen's company, in 1756 consisted of six-
Other Families 459
ty-eight men, and was composed of Walkers, Turks, Kerrs,
Robertsons, Bells, Crawfords Givenses, Craigs, Pattersons,
Poages, and others.
(Waddell's Annals of Augusta Co., p. 90.)
(1572) JAMES ALLEN 5 , William 4 , Edward 3 , Edward 2 ,
Edward 1 , was b. 1716, in Pennsylvania; d. 1810 in Virginia;
he was a Captain of Militia in 1756, and also participated in
the battle of Point Pleasant. He was 94 years of age at the
time of his death, having been an elder of Augusta Stone
Church for 64 years ; he married about 1735, Margaret An-
derson, dau. of Robert Anderson. Children :
1596.* i. MALCUM Allen 6 , b. 1736; m. Mary Cunning-
ham, dau. of James and Margaret ( )
Cunningham.
1598.* ii. JEAN Allen , m. James Trimble.
1598.* iii. ANN Allen , m. Col. George Poage, moved to
Ky., 1783.
1599.* iv. ELIZABETH Allen 6 , m. Rev. John McCue,
pastor of Tinkling Spring Church.
1600.* v. REBECCA Allen 6 , m. Major John Crawford,
b. 1764, son of Patrick and Sally (Mead) Craw-
ford.
1601.* vi. MARGARET Allen 6 , m. Major William Bell of
Augusta.
1602. vii. MARY Allen 6 , m. Col. Nicholas Lewis, and re-
moved to Ky.
1603. viii. NANCY Allen 6 , m. Capt. Samuel Frame of
Augusta.
1604.* ix. SARAH Allen 6 , m. James Bell, (1) wife had
Col. Wm. A. Bell.
1605.* x. WILLIAM Allen 6 , m. Susan Bell of Kentucky
and removed to that state in 1783, settled in
Lexington.
460 SlGGINS AND
1606.* xi. JAMES Allen 6 , m. Elizabeth Tate.
"The descendants of Captain James 5 and Margaret (An-
derson) Allen are very numerous, and they are scattered
all over the west and south-west. Many of them still re-
main in the Shenandoah Valley, and the posterity of this
worthy couple have been noted for their intelligence.
(Boogher.)
D. A. R. Record, Mrs. Ann Sullivan Cleary; No. 13332.
born in Kentucky ; wife of Walter Werden Cleary.
Descendant of John Poage, Capt. George Poage. Capt.
James Allen, of Va.
Daughter of John T. Sullivan and Elizabeth Poage, his
wife
Grand dau. of William Poage and Eliza Van Horn, his
wife
Gr. grand dau. of George Poage and Ann Allen, his wife
Gr. gr. grand dau. of James Allen and Margaret Ander-
son, his wife; John Poage and Mary Poage his wife;
. James Allen (1716-1810), was at the battle of Point
Pleasant and served in the Augusta County militia during
the Revolution. He was born in Ireland ( ?)
John Poage, was sheriff of Augusta County, 1778.
George Poage, commanded a company of militia, 1781.
He was born in Augusta County, 1754.
(Vol. XIV, p. 125, D. A. R. Lineage Book.)
Major John Crawford, b. 1764, m. Rebecca Allen, and had
John Crawford who m. Harriet McClung. Their dau. Re-
becca Crawford, m. John Taylor and were the parents of
Blanch Taylor of Madison, Va.
Malcum Allen signed the will of his brother-in-law, Col.
George Poage.
Other Families 461
(I596)MALCUM ALLEN", James', William', Edward 3 ,
Edward 2 , Edward', born about 1736, lived in Botetourt
County, Virginia, with his wife, Mary (Cunningham) Al-
len. In 1757 he was a member of Captain John Maxwell's
company. In 1757 he served in the French and Indian Wars
in Captain Nervill's Company from Albermarle Co. Va. He
also served in the 8th Virginia Regiment during the Revo-
lution. His name appears as a witness of the will of his
brother-in-law, Col. George Poage of Botetourt County, in
1786, but we do not find his name in the state Census of
1790; he had probably moved with his children to Adair
County, Kentucky, which was then a Territory, being ad-
mitted to the Union in 1792. Children:
1607. i. JAMES Allen 7 , b.— ; d.— ; m. Adair Co. Ky.;
m. Sallie Steps.
1608. ii. JOHN Allen 7 , b.— ; di — ; m. Nancy Pile, al-
so spelled Pyle.
1609.* iii. WILLIAM Allen 7 , b. abt. 1760-5; m. Elizabeth
Tilford.
1610. iv. MOSES Allen 7 , lived and died in Christian Co.
Ky.
1611. v. Hugh Allen 7 , m. Jane Turk, (dau. of Thomas
Turk) ; after his death she m. William Craig.
Children :
1612. i. ARCHIBALD Allen 8 .
1613. ii. JOSEPH Allen 8 .
1614.* vi. REBECCA Allen 7 , m. Nov. 22, 1804, Joseph
A Morrison.
1615. vii. ELIZABETH Allen 7 , m. Joseph Miller; lived
in Adair Co.
1616. viii. MARTHA Allen 7 , m. John Pyle; they had a
son:
462 SlGGINS AND
1617. OSCAR Pyle 8 , b. 1821; living in 1898 in
Columbia, Adair Co.. Ky.; seventy-seven
years old ; one of Columbia's best citizens, who
furnished the record of Malcum Aliens fam-
ily.
The name of Malcolm Allen is found in Crozier's "Vir-
ginia Colonial Militia," p.-66, on list from Albemarle Coun-
ty militia in service in the French and Indian War. Sep-
tember 1758.
The original source of information for this list is Hen-
ing's Statutes, Vol. 7. Malcolm Allen was a private in Cap-
tain James Nelvil's Company.
(1614). REBECCA ALLEN 7 , m. Nov. 22, 1804, Joseph
A. Morrison. Children.
1618. REBECCA Allen Morrison 8 , m. Jacob Peck
Goodson. Their daughter.
1619. FRANCES Goodson", m. J. M. Legg, of
Marietta, Ga.
I certify that the name of Malcolm Allen appears in
Hening's Statutes vol. 7, page 203, in a list of soldiers of
the French and Indian War, paid for their services. They
were paid under an act of September 1758, entitled "An
Act for the defence of the Frontier of this County, and for
other purposes therein mentioned". (Hening's Statutes 7,
171-179). The lists of troops paid below in subsequent
pages. The list of Albermarle County militia in service
covers pages 202-204. Malcolm Allen and a number of
others received 13 shillings each.
H. J. ECKENRODE
Archivist Virginia State Library.
Richmond, Va., April 23, 1914.
Sworn to before me this 19th day of October 1917 by Mrs.
Other Families 463
J. W. Legg, Marietta Ga as an exact copy as sent her by
State Librarian of Virginia.
(Seal) JAMES K. GROVES
N. P. Cobb Co. Gn
March 18, 1913
I find the name of Malcolm Allen as a private in Captain
Nevill's Company from Albermarle county called out for
service in the French and Indian War in 1758. I also find
a Malcolm Allen who served in the 8th Virginia regiment
during the Revolutionary war. I am unable to give you any
personal information concerning this man.
Yours very truly,
H. R. McILWAINE
State Librarian
per H. G. Eckenrode
Archivist
(1609). WILLIAM ALLEN 7 , Malcum 6 , James 5 , Will-
iam', Edward 3 Edward 2 , Edward 1 , b. abt. 1760-5, in Bote-
tourt Co. Va. ; married Elizabeth Tilford. They lived in
Adair Co., Ky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812; and
died of yellow fever in the south ; after his death, his widow
married 2d, James Gilmer, whom she survived many years ;
making her home in later years with her son, Tilford Gil-
mer, at Fairfield, Iowa, at which place she died 1834 aged
70 years. Children of 1st m.
1620. i. A son, d. young.
1621.* ii. SARA Ann Allen 8 , b. Dec. 25, 1810; d. Nov.,
1882, in Cowley Co., Kansas; m. Jan. 24, 1832,
Samuel Scott Walker, b. Jan. 30, 1807; d. Jan.
22, 1892, in Florida.
Children by 2d m.
464 SlGGINS AND
1622. iii. TILFORD Gilmer m. Ann Scott; sister of
James L. Scott; they lived in Fairfield, Iowa.
1623. iv. BENJAMIN Gilmer, d. young.
1624. v. JANE Gilmer, m. Sullivan Ross; she d. in
1898.
1625. vi. MARY Ann Gilmer, m. James L. Scott.
"Hugh Telford settled at Falling Springs in the forks of
James River.
(Withers Chronicles of Border Warfare, p. 52.)
"To Robert Tolford, and David Tolford, 8) shillings each
(on Revolutionary service)
(Boogher, p. 46.)
"When the Henrys came to Augusta no one can tell. A
William Henry was living in the country in 1750 when he
became guardian of one James McCord. This is the very
earliest mention of the name Henry in the records of the
county. James Henry resided here in 1759, and in that
year conveyed 200 acres of land in Borden's tract to Rob-
ert Telford. There is no deed on record to show when he
acquired the land"
(Annals of Augusta County, Va. Waddell-p. 479.)
TILFORD.
Andrew Wiley Rockridge Died in Rock-
ridge, 1832. Born in Rockridge July 1756. Draft-
ed by Thomas Vance in 1777 to drive cattle to Point Pleas-
ant. Went as far as mouth of Elk where the company met
a detachment from the fort to receive the cattle. Dis-
charged after forty-two days. About March 1, 1778, en-
tered the Continental service in the Virginia Line. Marched
Other Families 465
under Captain Robert Sawyers to White Plains, N. Y.,
where the command joined Gen. Morgan, and applicant re-
mained with him during the remainder of his term of
twelve months, being discharged at Noland Ferry on the
Potomac about May 10, 1779. Captain Sawyer soon re-
turned home, and Captain Andrew Wallace was killed in
battle at hanging rock in the Carolinas. For this service
he received $6.00. In 1780-81, he served as substitute un-
der Capt. James Hall and marched with two companies un-
der Captain Campbell and CAPTAIN DAVID GRAY and
at Deep run Church near Richmond joined Gen. Muhlen-
berg. Thence they marched down the north side of James
River above a battery near a British encampment opposite
Norfolk, thence by Portsmouth to Richmond where he was
discharged. Was in no skirmish. Again drafted three
months about April 1, 1781, under Capt. Hoyd (Lloyd),
then of Botetourt, and joined Green's army at Guilford.
Was in the battle there, the Carolina militia forming the
first line, the Virginia militia the second, and the Contin-
entals the third. The Carolina men broke and ran at the
outset. The riflemen to which applicant belonged were on
the left, and when the Carolina men retreated the British
forces came down on a ridge between the riflemen of the
left wing and the command of Col. Campbell, who as appli-
cant believes brought on the action. The enemy were swept
off by the Virginia riflemen, but formed again and again,
until finally they came down upon the ridge in columns,
twelve and sixteen men deep, and were compelled (which
party?) to ground their arms. Gen. Stephens was
wounded and CAPT. TILFORD killed.
(Virginia Militia in the Revolution, p. 126. Section No.
137 by J. T. McAllister.)
Captain David Gray, page 105-123-137-235-276 Virginia
Militia in the Revolution, McAllister.
(1597). JANE ("JEAN") ALLEN , dau. of James and
Margaret (Anderson) Allen; m. James Trimble, b. Aug.
466 SlGGINS AND
1756, son of John Trimble and Mary ( ) Moffet,
wid. of John Moffet. James Trimble was a member of
Captain George Matthew's company at the battle of Point
Pleasant. During the Revolutionary War he was captain
of Rifle Rangers. Jane Allen was his second wife. In 1783
he with his family and many others, removed to Kentucky,
and settled in Woodford County. He liberated his slaves
and was about to remove to Hillsboro, Ohio, when he d. in
1821. They had eight children:
1626. i. MARGARET Trimble 7 , m. James A. McCue,
* her cousin.
1627. ii. MARY Trimble 7 , m. John M. Nelson, b. in
Augusta Co. Va.
1628. iii. ALLEN Trimble 7 , m. Margaret McDowell,
(dau. of Joseph and Margaret McDowell Trim-
ble) . He was Gov. of Ohio 1826 to 1830. Chil-
dren:
1629. i. Rev. JOSEPH McDowell Trimble 8 , of the
M. E. Church.
1630. ii. MADISON Trimble 8 , of Hillsboro, Ohio.
1631. iii. COLONEL Wm. H. Trimble 8 .
1632. iv. WILLIAM A. Trimble 7 , major in War of 1812 ;
brevet lieutenant-colonel in the U. S. Army till
1819 ; and a member of U. S. Senate from Ohio,
when he d. 1821, aged 35 years.
1633. v. JOHN A. Trimble 7 , of Hillsboro, the youngest
son, m. a dau. of Dr. William Boys, of Staunton,
Va.
Names of other children unknown to us.
(1599). ELIZABETH ALLEN 6 , m. Rev. John McCue,
their dau.
1634. i. SARAH Allen McCue 7 , m. Joseph Jefferson
McDowell.
Other Families 467
(1600). REBECCA ALLEN , dau. of James and Mar-
garet (Anderson) Allen, married John Crawford, March
29, 1764. Children:
1635. i. ELIZABETH Crawford 7 , m. Captain William
Ingles.
1636. ii. SALLY Crawford 7 , m. John Hyde.
1637. iii. MARGARET Crawford 7 , m. Cyrus Hyde; she
was his 1st wife.
1638. iv. JAMES Crawford 7 , known as Major James
Crawford, m. Cynthia McClung, of Greenbrier.
1639. v. JOHN Crawford 7 , m. Harriet McClung, of
Greenbrier.
1640. vi. GEORGE W. Crawford 7 , d. unm.
1641. vii. ANN ("Nancy"), second wife of Franklin
McCue.
1642. viii. MARY Crawford 7 , m. Dr. Edward G. Moor-
man.
1643. ix. REBECCA Crawford 7 , m. Stuart McClung, of
Greenbrier.
(1604). SARAH ALLEN 6 , dau. of James and Margaret
(Anderson) Allen married, as his 1st wife James Bell, b.
1772; d. 1856, ( he was son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hen-
derson) Bell ; Joseph Bell 1 , was b. May 25, 1742, in Augusta
Co., Va.; d. 1823). James Bell was long the senior justice
of the peace in Augusta Co. Children :
1644. i. Colonel WILLIAM A. Bell 7 .
1645. ii. SARAH Bell 7 , first wife of John Wayt, Jr.
The last wife of James Bell was Margaret Craig.
Children :
1646. iii. JOHN J. Bell.
1647. iv. DAVID S. Bell.
468 SlGGINS AND
1648. v. J. WAYT Bell.
1649. vi. HENDERSON M. Bell.
1650. vii. JANE Bell, m. Arbuckle.
1651. viii. BETTIE Bell, m. Kinney.
1652. ix. MARGARET Bell, m. Young, of
Staunton, Va.
(1601). MARGARET ALLEN 6 , dau. of James and
Margaret (Anderson) Allen, m. William Bell, known as
Major Bell, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Henderson) Bell,
was for many years county surveyor of Augusta. Children :
1653. i. WILLIAM J. D. Bell 7 , the only son.
1654. ii. ELIZABETH Bell 7 , m. Joseph D. Keyser, of
Allegheny Co.
1655. iii. SUSAN Bell 7 , m. James Craig of Mount
Maridian, Augusta, Co., Va.
MARY Bell 7 , m. Addison Hyde.
MARGARET Bell 7 , m. 1st, John Crawford, he
d. childless; she m. 2d, James Crawford.
NANCY Bell 7 , m. Zachariah McChesney.
SARAH Bell 7 , 2d wife of John Wayt, Jr.
REBECCA Bell 7 , m. John T. Reid.
JULIA Bell 7 , m. Alexander W. Arbuckle.
JANE Bell 7 , wife of Rev. John A. Van Lear.
(1605) WILLIAM ALLEN'', son of James and Margaret
(Anderson) Allen removed to Kentucky in 1783 with Cap-
tain James Trimble and others. He settled at Lexington;
m. Susan Bell, of Kentucky. Children:
1663. i. Allen 7 , m. Matthew Jouett, the
artist, and their oldest dau.
1656.
iv.
1657.
v.
1658.
vi.
1659.
vii.
1660.
viii.
1661.
ix.
1662.
X.
Other Families 469
1664. i. Jouett 8 , m. Richard Menifee.
1665. ii. Allen 7 , m. Dr. Alexander Mitchell,
of Frankfort, and one of their dau.
i. Mitchell 8 , m. Oliver Frazer.
1666. iii. Colonel WILLIAM Allen 7 , formerly of Au-
gusta Co., Va.
1667. iv. Colonel JAMES Allen 7 , of Missouri.
(1606). JAMES ALLEN 6 , m. Elizabeth Tate. Chil-
dren:
1668. i. WILLIAM Allen 7 , m. Poage.
1669. ii. JOHN Allen 7 , m. 1st, Polly Crawford, and 2d,
Ann Barry, wid of Dr. Wm. McCue, and re-
moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, so named for
his wife.
1670. iii. MARY Allen 7 , m. Capt. John Welsh.
1671. iv. MARGARET Allen 7 , 2d wife of Major Will-
iam Poage of Augusta, Co.
1672. v. NANCY Allen 7 , m. Charles Lewis.
1673. vi. SARAH Allen 7 , m. George Mayse of Bath
County.
1674. vii. JAMES Allen 7 , m. Maynard of
Michigan.
WILLIAM POAGE of Augusta Co., Va., youngest son
of Thomas, was the Major Poage who lived many years
on the ancestral farm three miles from Staunton, Va. His
first wife was Betsy Anderson, dau. of Colonel Andrew;
she d. without issue, and he m. again Margaret ("Peggy")
Allen-No.-1671. C hildren:
1675. i. THOMAS Poage 8 , colonel of the Fiftieth
Virginia regiment when he was killed, on Black-
water, Feb. 1863.
—31
470 SlGGINS AND
1676. ii. Poage 8 , m. General James A.
Walker, late Lieut. Gov. of Virginia.
1677. iii. A. W. Poage 8 , of Wythe.
(Supplement to Annals of Augusta County, Virginia)
by J. A. Waddell.
(1621) SARAH ANN ALLEN 8 ; William 7 , Mal-
cura 6 , James 5 , William 4 , Edward' 1 , Edward 2 , Edward 1 ; b.
Dec. 25, 1810, Adair Co., Ky. ; d. Nov., 1882, in Cowley Co.
Kansas; m. Jan. 24, 1832.
SAMUEL SCOTT WALKER; b. Jan. 30, 1807, in Adair
Co. Ky.; d. Jan. 20, 1892, in Florida. Children:
1678.* i. ELIZABETH Erma Walker* ; b. Feb. 20, 1833
in Adair Co. Ky.; d. Sept. 29, 1864. m. Feb.
24, 1856, at the home of her father, by Rev.
Robert Coles, to Benjamin Baird Siggins ; b.
July 27, 1827, in Youngsville, Pa.; d. June 14,
1903. Son of Alexander and Margaret (Kin-
near) Siggins. Benjamin Baird Siggins m. 2d
Druzilla E. Belnap.
1679. ii. MARY Adeline Walker 1 '; b. Sept. 28, 1834;
m. Dec. 25, 1857; James Harden; b. June 19,
1837. He served in the Civil War, was a pri-
vate in the 34th Iowa Volunteer Infantry under
Capt. Gardner. Living (1891) Bartow, Flor-
ida. They had 8 children.
1680. iii. CYRUS Allen Walker* ; b. Sept. 22, 1836, in
Jefferson Co. la. Said to have been the first
white child b. in the state, m. Jan. 8, 1872;
Leah Augusta Young, dau. of Major J. B. Young.
They had 4 children.
1681. iv. FETNEY Ann Walker 9 ; b. June 14, 1838 ; d.
Jan. 30, 1847.
1682. v. LUCIAN Alford Walker" ; b. Aug. 8, 1840 ; d.
May 23, 1841.
Other Families 471
1683. vi. LOUISA America Walker* ; b. March 18,
1842 ; m. April 27, 1862 ; Enos Reed, b. Oct. 15,
1836 ; Union Co., O. Served three years in the
Civil War as Commissary Sergeant. His bro-
ther-in-law Cyrus Allen Walker was with him
in the war. Living (1898) Clearfield, Kansas.
They had 8 children.
1684. vii. JAMES Franklin Walker 3 ; b. Dec. 17, 1834;
m. March 21, 1867; Evelyn Wyland; b. Aug.
23, 1846, of Goshen, Ind. He was in the Civil
War. In 1870 he removed from Lucas Co., la.,
to Bellville, Republic Co., Kansas, where he
owns and operates a farm. They had 4 child-
ren.
1685. . viii. QUINTILLA Jane Walker* ; b. Oct. 4, 1845 ;
m. 1875 ; George Walker, her cousin, son of Ed-
mond. He was postmaster Quote, Carroll Co.,
Mo., for several years. They had 3 children.
1686. ix. ROSELLA Melissa Walker* ; b. June 2, 1847 ;
m. 1867 ; George Smith, who served three years
in the Civil War as a private in Company I.,
33rd Iowa. He was killed in a railroad acci-
dent June 23, 1881. She d. July 13, 1900, in
Wauchula, Fla. They had 6 children.
1687. x. IRA Cassius Walker*; b. June 14, 1849, in
Iowa; m. July 31, 1889, Emily Acres. She lived
in Burlington, la., but was b. in Gibraltar, Spain.
She was the daughter of William Acres, who was
a merchant in Burlington, la., for seventeen
years. Her grandfather Acres served in the
Crimean War. Ira Cassius Walker is a station
agent and telegraph operator. They live in Old
Mexico (1902). They had three children.
For further records of this and other Walker families
see (Genealogical History of the Descendants of John Wal-
ker of Wigton, Scotland by E. S. White) .
472 SlGGINS AND
(1678) ELIZABETH ERMA WALKER 9 , Sarah Ann
Allen 8 , William 7 , Malcum 6 , James 5 , William 4 , Edward 3 , Ed-
ward 2 , Edward 1 ; b. Feb. 20, 1833, Adair Co., Ky. ; d. Sept.
29, 1864, Cobham, Pa. ; m. Feb. 24, 1856.
BENJAMIN BAIRD SlGGINS, b. July 27, 1827, in
Youngsville, Pa.; d. June 14, 1903, Youngsville, Pa., son
of Alexander and Margaret (Kinnear) Siggins. Benjamin
Baird Siggins m. 2d Druzilla E. Belnap. Children:
1. EMMA Siggins 10 ; b. Feb. 6, 1857, in Chariton,
Iowa; married Dec. 6, 1882, in Youngsville, Pa.
John Barber White; b. Dec. 8, 1847, Ellery
Township (near Jamestown), Chautauqua
County, New York. Son of John and Rebekah
(Barber) White, gr. son of Luke and Eunice
(White) White, gr. gr. son of Josiah and De-
borah (House) White, gr. gr. gr. grand son of
Josiah and Abigail (Whitcomb) White, gr. gr.
gr. gr. grand son of Josiah and Mary (Rice)
White, gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. grand son of John
White of the "Countie of Middlesex in Eng-
land" and hi swife Joan. John White, bap. in the
"Old Church," in South Petherton, Somerset
Co., England, Mar. 7, 1620 ; m. in Drayton Par-
ish, Somerset, May 28, 1627, Joan, dau. of Rich-
ard and Maudlin (Staple alias Cooke) West,
bapt. in the "Old Church," in Drayton, Apr. 16,
1606. They lived in Drayton where their two
oldest sons were baptized. In 1638, or before,
he owned a home in Southarpe, in the Parish
of South Petherton, which he sold to his brother
Robert before coming to New England with his
wife and children to make his home in the
wilderness. (Ancestry of John Barber White).
ii. LAURA Siggins 10 ; b. Aug. 15, 1859, in Chariton,
la.; m. Sept. 19, 1883, in Youngsville, Pa.;
James 0. Messerly, of Warren, Pa., son of
Jonas and Sarah (Alspaugh) Messerly.
Other Families 473
iii. CLINTON C. Siggins 10 ; b. Dec. 31, 1862, in Colo-
rado; m. Apr. 20, 1890, in Hugo, Colorado;
Nellie Cunningham, b. May 26, 1870, dau. of
Jerry and Josaphine (Ballard) Cunningham.
Living (1917) Twin Falls, Idaho.
EMMA Siggins 10 ; m. John Barber White. Their child-
ren:
EMMA Ruth White 11 ,
i. JAY Barber White 11 ; d. in infancy,
ii. RAYMOND Baird White 11 .
474 SlGGINS AND
ALLEN LINEAGE
EDWARD Allen 1 , of England.
EDWARD Allen 2 , of Ipswich, N. E. ; m. Sarah Kimball
their son
EDWARD Allen 3 ; m. Mercy Painter
their son
WILLIAM Allen 4 ; m. Mary Budd
their son
JAMES Allen 1 ; m. Margaret Anderson
their son
MALCUM Allen 6 ; m. Mary Cunningham
their son
WILLIAM Allen 7 ; m. Elizabeth Tilford
their dau.
SARAH Ann Allen 8 ; m. Samuel Scott Walker
their dau.
ELIZABETH Erma Walker* ; m. Benjamin Baird Siggins
their dau.
EMMA Siggins 10 ; m. John Barber White
their children
EMMA Ruth White
RAYMOND Baird White.
Other Families 475
POAGE FAMILY
1688. "ROBERT POAGE 1 , with many other settlers in
the Valley, appeared at Orange court, May 22,
1740, to "prove his importation," with the view
of taking up public lands. The record sets
forth that he and his wife Elizabeth, and nine
children, named, came from Ireland to Phila-
delphia, "and from thence to this colony," at
his own expense. He may have come some
years earlier than the date mentioned, but we
find no trace of him before that time. Alex-
ander Breckenridge proved his importation on
the same day, and very likely the two families
came over in the same ship. Mr. Poage settled
on a plantation three miles north of Staunton,
which he must have purchased from William
Beverly, as the land was in Beverly's Manor.
The tract contained originally seven hundred
and seventy-two acres. It was there, no doubt,
that the young preacher, McAden, obtained his
first dinner in Virginia on Saturday, June 21,
1755. But he acquired other lands from the
government. There is a patent on parchment,
executed by Governor Gooch, July 30, 1742,
granting Robert Poage three hundred and six
acres of land "in the county of Orange, on the
west side of the Blue Ridge," to be held "in
free and common soccage, and not in capite or
by Knight's service," in consideration of thirty-
five shillings; provided the grantee should pay
a fee rent of one shilling for every fifty acres,
annually," on the feast of St. Michaels the
Archangel," &c. The seal attached to the pat-
476 SlGGINS AND
ent has on it an impression of the royal crown
of Great Britain. The will of Robert Poage,
dated October 20, 1773, was proved in court
March 6, 1774. The executors were William
Lewis and testator's son John. The testator
mentions his sons John, Thomas, Robert,
George and William, and his daughters Martha
Woods, Elizabeth Crawford and Margaret Rob-
ertson. To the last six he gave only "one pis-
tole" each, having provided for them otherwise.
The son Thomas is not named in the Orange
county court record and the presumption is
that he was born after the family came to
America. The record referred to mentions,
however, two daughters, Mary and Sarah, who
are not named in the will. Both had probably
died before the will. One of these, it is sup-
posed, was the first wife of Major Robert Breck-
enridge (son of Alexander), who died while
quite young, leaving two sons, Robert and Alex-
ander Breckenridge, who became prominent
citizens of Kentucky.
Children of Robert 1 and Elizabeth ( ) Poage:
1689. i. JOHN Poage 2 ; qualified as assistant to Thom-
as Lewis, Surveyor of Augusta county, May 20,
1760. In 1763, he was vestryman of Augusta
Parish. On March 17, 1778, he became high
sheriff, and on the next day qualified as county
surveyor. His will dated February 16, 1789,
and proved in court April 22, 1789, mentions
his wife Mary, and children, Robert, George,
James, John, Elizabeth and Ann. His son Rob-
ert qualified as assistant county surveyor, June
16, 1778.
1690.* ii. THOMAS Poage- ; inherited and lived on his
father's homestead. His wife was Polly Mc-
Clanahan. His will was proved in court Jan-
Other Families 477
uary 24, 1803, mentions children Elija, Robert,
John, William, Elizabeth, Ann, Polly and Agnes.
1691. iii. ROBERT Poage 2 .
1692. iv. GEORGE Poage 2 .
1693. v. WILLIAM Poage 2 ; m. Ann Kennedy. She is
said to have been married four times. Her
first husband was a Wilson, and Poage was the
second. After the death of the latter she mar-
ried Joseph Lindsey who was killed at the bat-
tle of Blue Licks, in 1782, and finally she mar-
ried James McGinty. She was a woman of rare
energy and ingenuity. Collins says she brought
the first spinning wheel to Kentucky, and made
the first linen manufactured in that county
from the line of nettles and the first linsey
from nettle-line and buffalo wool. They were
the parents of General Robert Poage of Mason
county, Kentucky.
1694. vi. MARTHA Poage 2 ; m. Woods.
1695. vii. ELIZABETH Poage 2 ; m. Crawford.
1696. viii. MARGARET Poage 2 ; m. Robertson.
1697. ix. MARY Poage 2 .
1698. x. SARAH Poage 2 .
(From Supplement of Annals of Augusta Co., Va., by
Jos. A. Waddell).
(1689) JOHN POAGE 2 , a native of Ireland settled in
Virginia in 1737, his last days were spent in Augusta coun-
ty, that state, where he departed this life in 1789. They
had thirteen children:
1699. i. ROBERT Poage 3 ; b. 1752, in Augusta Co.,
Va. ; d. 1810, in Ashland, Ky. ; m. June 17, 1782,
Mary Hopkins, his 2d cousin.
478 SlGGINS AND
1700.* ii. Major GEORGE Poage 3 , b. March 28, 1754;
d. Sept. 16, 1821, near Ashland, Ky.; m. 1774,
Ann Allen (No. 1598). Major Poage qualified
as Captain in the Augusta Co., Va. Militia and
was in active service in the Revolutionary War.
1701. iii. Colonel WILLIAM Poage 3 , b. Feb. 17, 1756,
in Augusta county; d. Dec. 7, 1830, in Poca-
hontas Co., W. Va. ; m. Margaret Davis.
1702. iv. JOHN Poage 3 ; b. Dec. 23, 1757, in Augusta
Co.; d. 1827, in Augusta; m. Rebecca Hopkins,
his 2d cousin.
1703. v Colonel JAMES Poage 3 ; b. March 17, 1760,
in Augusta; d. April 19, 1820, in Ripley, Ohio;
m. March 19, 1787, Mary Woods, his cousin.
1704. vi. ELIZABETH Poage 3 ; b. ; d. 1802, in
Va. ; m. Aug. 23, 1783, Rev. Moses Hoge, D. D.
1705. vii. Rev. THOMAS Poage 3 ; b. in Va.; m. 1792,
Laura Watkins and d. in Va. the same year.
(1700) MAJOR GEORGE AND ANN (ALLEN)
POAGE 3 , had 13 children. Of these :
1706. THOMAS Hoge Poage 1 , was forty-nine years of
age when he passed away May 31, 1841. His
wife, Nancy Allen (Frame) Poage long sur-
vived him and d. July 13, 1889. Thomas H.
Poage was an extensive land owner, planter and
slave-owner, operating near Ashland, Ken-
tucky. He also had large tracts of land in
Texas and to his plantation there took many
of his negroes because of the agitation in Vir-
ginia against slavery. While on a trip of in-
spection to his plantations in the Lone Star
State he became ill of yellow fever and died
there. He was b. Feb. 4, 1792. Children:
1707. i. MARGARET Ann Poage 5 ; b. July 30,
1821 ; d. in infancy.
Other Families 479
1708. ii. AGNES Virginia Poage 5 ; b. Oct. 7, 1824,
m. William Shanklin, who d. , leaving
her a wid. He was a banker and extensive
land holder. She resides on a plantation near
Carlisle, Kentucky.
1909.* iii. GEORGE Samuel Poage 3 ; b. Feb. 6,
1827 ; d. Dec. 13, 1882, in Benton county, Mis-
souri; m. July 25, 1853,
Eliza C. Keller, b. Sept. 28, 1833, dau. of Louis
and Hannah (Miller) Keller, natives of Ger-
many. She was the eldest of 10 children.
1710.* iv. HUGH Calvin Poage 5 ; b. June 16, 1829;
d. 1900 ; m. Sarah E. Davenport.
1711. v. ISABEL Jane Poage ; 6 ; b. Aug. 12, 1831 ;
d. young.
1712. vi. THOMAS C. Poage'; b. Aug. 4, 1834;
d. Dec. 15, 1877.
1713. vii. REBECCA Crawford Poage 3 ; b. Aug. 7,
1836; m. R. C. Wilson. Is a widow living in
Carlisle, Ky.
1714. viii. JOHN William Poage 1 ; b. Feb. 9, 1840;
d. July 9, 1868.
1715. ii. WILLIAM Poage 4 , son of Major George and
Ann (Allen) Poage, married
Eliza Van Horn. They had a daughter:
ELIZABETH Poage"', who married John T.
Sullivan. They had:
ANN Sullivan 6 ; b. in Kentucky ; m. Wal-
ter Warden Cleary, and
FLORENCE Sullivan 6 ; m. John Pickens
Reese.
(Ref. D. A. R. Lineage Book, National No. 13332).
480 SlGGINS AND
(1709) GEORGE SAMUEL POAGE 4 , spent his boy-
hood days in Kentucky ; came to Missouri in 1858 ; lived for
a time in Lafayette County, and about one year in War-
rensburg. He then removed to Benton County where he
became a farmer and land owner until his death on De-
cember 13, 1882 ; he m. July 25, 1853,
Eliza C. Keller. Children:
1716. i. JOHN Thomas Poage 5 ; b. July 30, 1854; m.
Evelyn Harvey. They live in Clinton, Mo.
1717. ii. GEORGE Madison Poage 5 ; b. October 31,
1856; m.
Laura Oaks. He is a land owner and capitalist,
lives in Jerico Springs, Cedar Co., Mo.
1718. iii. FREDERICK Clay Poage 3 ; b. April 20, 1859 ;
m. Fannie Wilson, and resides on the old Poage
homestead in Benton Co., Mo.
1719. iv. EMMA Eugenia Poage 5 ; b. March 25, 1861;
d. Sept. 26, 1862.
1720. v. SAMUEL Allen Poage 5 ; b. May 10, 1865 ; m.
Ethel Baugh. He is a physician and resides in
Clinton, Mo.
1721.* vi. HENRY Ferrel Poage' 1 ; b. March 17, 1868;
m. in 1896;
Hattie Haysler, dau. of Charles H. and Elizabeth
(Humbrock) Haysler, of Clinton, Mo.
1722. vii. HANNAH Adelaide Poage 5 ; b. November 11,
1871 ; m. January 3, 1910,
Lawrence Crotty, of Clinton, Mo.
1723. viii. WILLIAM Rhea Poage 5 ; b. March 20, 1873;
m. Ethel Shobe.
(1721) Henry and Hattie (Haysler) Poage, have two
children :
Other Families 481
HAYSLER A. and VASHTI H. Poage.
(Ref. Vol. Ill, p. 248, Missouri The Center State, 1821-
1915).
(1710) HUGH CALVIN POAGE 5 ; b. June 16, 1829;
d. 1900; m. Sarah E. Davenport. Children:
1724. i. VIRGINIA Statira Poage ; b. in Boyd Co.,
Ky. ; m. Frank Henderson.
1725. ii. KATHERINE Poage 6 ; b. in Ashland, Ky. ;
m. E. H. Townsend.
(1690) THOMAS POAGE 2 , Robert 1 , married,
Polly McClanahan. Children:
1726. i. ELIJA Poage 3 ; m. Nancy Grattan, dau. of
John Grattan, July 3, 1787, and went to Ken-
tucky.
1727. ii. ROBERT Poage 3 ; m. Martha Crawford, Sept.
15, 1791, and went to Ky.
1728. iii. JOHN Poage 3 ; m. Nov. 27, 1792 ; Mrs. Rachel
Crawford, widow of John Crawford of Augus-
ta, and dau. of Hugh Barclay, of Rockbridge.
John Poage was gr.-father of Col. Wm. T.
Poage, of Lexington.
1729. iv. WILLIAM T. Poage 2 ; youngest son of Thom-
as, Sr., was the Major Poage who lived many
years on the ancestral farm three miles from
Staunton. His first wife was Betsy, dau. of Col.
Andrew Anderson. She d. without issue, and
he m. again, Margaret (Peggy) Allen (No.
1671), by whom there was a large family. His
son Thomas Allen 3 , a rising lawyer in S. W.
Va., was Colonel of the Fiftieth Virginia regi-
ment when he was killed, on Blackwater, in
Feb., 1863. One of Major Poage's daughters
married General James A. Walker, who was
482 SlGGINS AND
Lieut. Gov. of Va. A. W. Poage, of Wythe, a
son of Major Poage, contributed much of this
family history.
1730. v. ANN POAGE 2 ; m. Major Archibald Woods,
of Botetourt, March 5, 1789, who was son of
Mrs. Martha Woods, dau. of Robert Poage, Sr.
Major Woods removed to Ohio County, and d.
there in 1846. His son Thomas Woods was
cashier of the North Western Bank of Virginia,
at Wheeling and was father of Rev. Edgar
Woods, of Pantops Academy, Albemarl, Va.
1731. vi. ELIZABETH Poage 2 ; m. Rev. William Wil-
son, of Augusta church.
1732. vii. POLLY Poage 2 ; m. Thomas Wilson, a brother
of Rev. William Wilson. Thomas Wilson lived
at Morgantown, N. W. Va., and was a lawyer,
member of congress, &c. His son, the Rev.
Norval Wilson, was long a prominent minister
of the M. E. Church and one of his daughters
was Mrs. Louisa Lowrie, missionary to India.
Among the grand sons of Thomas Wilson are
Bishop Alpheus Wilson and E. W. Wilson, at
one time Gov. of West Virginia.
"The Poage Chapter, of Ashland, Kentucky, Miss M.
Annie Poage, regent, has marked the graves of Gen. John
Poage and his son, Col. George Poage, at Old Bethesda
grave yard at Ashland, Ky., and that of Capt. James Allen
at Staunton, Virginia, all having served at the siege of
Yorktown and at Point Pleasant, West Virginia."
(Sixteenth Report of the National Society D. A. R. p. 40) .
REV. ISAAC CAMPBELL; Mr. Campbell was ordained
and licensed by the Lord Bishop of London to officiate in
Virginia, July 6, 1747 ; became incumbent of Trinity Par.,
Newport, Charles Co., Md., 1748; was presented to the
Other Families 483
living by Gov. Ogle, and inducted July 16, 1751. He was
a member of Chas, Co. Committee of Safety, Nov. 24, 1774 ;
was a Whig of the Revolution. After 1776 he had a school
at his residence. He published a work on Civil Govern-
ment, in 4 vols., 8vo. In 1779 was elected Rector of the
Par. by the Board of Trustees. At his death was sue. by
Rev. Hatch Dent, having had charge of the Parish 36
years. He left a large estate of Va. lands, about 3,330 a.,
which he divided equally among his sons ; also a large plan-
tation in Md. on which he lived, and which he left to his
daughters. His widow survived him but a short while.
His estate was appraised, P. W. Co., Mar. 7, 1785. He was
born in Scotland and died in Maryland, 1784; m.
before 1755, Jean Brown; b. "Rich Hill" Charles Co., Md.,
June 1, 1728 ; d. 1784. Children :
i. WILLIAM Campbell 2 ; m. Randolph.
ii. JEAN Campbell-; m. Walter Winter.
iii. GUSTAVUS Brown Campbell 2 .
iv. ISAAC Campbell 2 ; m. Bell.
v. JAMES Campbell 2 ; m.
vi. RICHARD Henry Campbell 2 .
vii. JOHN Campbell, M. D. 2 .
viii. FRANCESS Campbell 2 ; m. Russell.
ix. CECELIA Ann Campbell 2 ; m. George Tyler.
WILLIAM Campbell 2 ; m. ■— Randolph. Their
daughter :
i. CATHERINE Campbell • ; m. James Cunning-
ham, of "Richlands," Fred'k Co., Md., bro-
ther of Sir William Cunningham, of Scot-
land. Their children were:
i. GEORGE Farley Cunningham 4 .
ii. CHARLES Edward Cunningham'.
484 SlGGINS AND
iii. REBECCA Janet Cunningham 4 ; d. Lon-
don, Eng., Sept. 25, 1890; m. 1st Thomas
Blackburn; m. 2d Rev. Edward William
Syle.
(Hayden's Va. Gen. p. 165).
Thomas Wallace, of Cairnhill, merchant at Glasgow, d.
April, 1748, he purchased the lands of Cairnhill early
in the 18th century, as successor to his father, the lands,
Anderson says, having been in the possession of the Wal-
laces of Cairnhill, and Ayrshire family for more than two
centuries. He married LILIAS CUNNINGHAM, daughter
of WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, of Craigends, Renfrew,
and his wife Christian Colquohoun of Luss. Her father
was elected in 1689, by the freeholders of Renfrew, then
Commissioner to the Convention of Estates, where, in sub-
sequent sessions of Parliament, he was distinguished by
his great fidelity and honor. He was lineally descended
from Sir William CUNNINGHAM the 2d son of Alexander,
1st Earl of Glencairn who received the lands of Craigends
from his father before the end of the 15th Cent. (For
Colquhoun of Luss v. Burke's Peerage, Hayden's Va. Gen.
p. 689).
Other Families 485
CUNNINGHAM FAMILY
The family of Cunningham is of Scotch origin, the home
of the clan bearing that name being in Ayrshire, where
they were established and prominent as early as 1200.
They possess the earldom of Carrick and Glencairn and the
lordship of Cunningham. From Ayreshire are descended
all known branches of the family in England, Scotland and
Ireland. According to family tradition the first settlers
in Ireland were two of six brothers who won distinction
under King James of Scotland, who later became James I.
of England. The records show that among the first gran-
tees of King James, in Ireland, were several of this name.
In the precinct of Portlough, County of Donegal, John Cun-
ningham of Crawfield, Ayrshire, Scotland, received a
grant of one thousand acres in 1610. At the same time
James Cunningham, Laird of Glangarnocke, Ayrshire, re-
ceived two grants, one of one thousand acres and the other
of two thousand acres, in the same precinct, and Cuthbert
Cunningham, of Glangarnocke, received one thousand
acres. Alexander Conningham, of Powton, Gentleman, of
Sorbie, Wigtonshire, Scotland, had a grant of one thousand
acres in the precinct of Boylagh, County of Donegal. There
is reason to believe that Glangarnocke, Ayrshire, was the
home of the family. History relates that Sir James Cun-
ningham took possession of his grant of two thousand
acres but returned to Scotland. His agent Robert Young
built one Irish barn of copies; he had forty-four head of
cattle, one plow of garrons, and some tillage at last har-
vest. Three families of British resident on his portion,
preparing to build ; as yet no estate passed to them "John
Cunningham of Crawfield" the Carew manuscript just
quoted says, "one thousand acres; resident with one fam-
ily of British ; is building a barn, and preparing materials ;
hath a plow of garrons and thirty head of cattle. Cuthbert
486 SlGGINS AND
Cunningham, one thousand acres; resident with two fam-
ilies of British; built an Irish house of Copies, and pre-
pared materials to re-edify the castle of Coole McEctrean ;
hath a plow of garrons, and eighty head of cattle in stock."
This document is dated July 29, 1611, and refers to the
land granted above. As Sir James returned to Scotland,
we may assume that these two other Cunninghams, whose
grants were evidently together in the records, were the two
brothers traced in the tradition as the settlers from Scot-
land. Another Cunningham, Alexander, of Ponton Elder,
had not appeared, and perhaps never did; and another
James Cunningham, of Horomilne, returned to Scotland in
the fall of 1611, leaving his herd of six cows and six ser-
vants, but had no preparations for a permanent stay. The
next official report of the settlement, under date of 1619,
shows progress in the settlements of Sir James Cunning-
ham, John Cunningham and Cuthbert Cunningham.
(Middlesex Co., Mass. Vol. I., p. 352).
THE CUNNINGHAMS.
"ROBERT CUNNINGHAM, a native of north Ireland,
settled on a farm called Rock Springs, in Augusta County,
about the year 1735. He was one of the first set of jus-
tices of the peace appointed in 1775, and afterwards, it
is said, a member of the House of Burgesses. His wife
was a widow Hamilton and the mother of several chil-
dren at the time of her second marriage. One of her
daughters, Mary Hamilton, married David Campbell, and
was mother of John and Arthur Campbell, and others.
Two of the daughters of Robert Cunningham also married
Campbells. He had no son. His daughter, Martha (Cun-
ningham), about the year 1750, married Walter Davis,
who became the owner of Rock Spring farm. Mr. Davis
never held civil office, but was an Elder of Tinkling Spring
Church and a man of much influence. His daughter Mar-
Other Families 487
garet (Davis) married John Smith, and was mother of
Judge Daniel Smith of Rockingham. His son William
Davis, born in 1765, married Annie Caldwell, and died
about 1851, aged eighty-six. He was a man of high stand-
ing in the community, a justice of the peace, high sheriff,
&c. Walter Davis, Jr., son of William born in 1791, was
for many years one of the two commissioners of the rev-
enue in Augusta County and noted for his faithful and
intelligent discharge of the duties of his office. His wife
was Rebecca VanLear. William C. Davis a brother of
Walter Davis, Jr., removed to Missouri in 1836 or 1837.
Dr. Thomas Parks, of Missouri, is the only surviving grand-
child of Walter Davis, Sr.
John Cunningham, believed to have been a brother of
Robert, lived in Staunton; his residence being on Lot No.
1, southwest corner of Augusta Street and Spring Lane.
He had three daughters and one son. His oldest daugh-
ter, Mrs. Margaret Reed (Mrs. Reed afterwards, while a
widow, became the second wife of Col. George Mathews,
from whom she was divorced. She lived to extreme old
age in the low frame house which formerly stood on Bev-
erly Street; she was baptized by Mr. Craig in 1747, and
died in 1827. Another daughter, Isabella, married Major
Robert Burns, and was mother of Mrs. Waterman and
Mrs. Gambill, of Rockingham. The third daughter of
John Cunningham, Elizabeth, married Captain Thomas
Smith. According to family tradition, Captain Smith
commanded the only troop of cavalry that went into the
Continental service from Augusta during the Revolution-
ary War. His daughters were Mrs. Michael Garber, Mrs.
Moses McCue, and Mrs. John Jones. Captain Walter Cun-
ningham, only son of John, removed to Kentucky, and thus
the name disappeared from the county. We are indebted
to Major James B. Dorman, a grandson of Mrs. Moses
McCue for most of the above facts."
(Supplement of Annals of Augusta Co., p. 442, by Jos.
A. Waddell.)
488 SlGGINS AND
DAVID CAMPBELL, son of John Campbell of Lancaster
Co., Pennsylvania, married in Augusta Co., Va. Mary Ham-
ilton and had seven sons and six daus. namely: John,
Arthur, James, William, David Robert Patrick, Mar-
garet, Mary, Martha, Sarah, Ann and a dau. not named.
WILL OF JAMES CUNNINGHAM.
16th January 1760 (33 year of Reign) James Cunning-
ham's will, of Colony and Dominion of Virginia. To wife
Margaret; to son Moses, infant; to Hugh Cunningham, 1
shilling; to daughter ELIZABETH; 1 shilling; to James
Cunningham, son to son JACOB; to John Cunnongham,
son to son ISAAC : to daughter MARY ; to daughters, each
and ever (one) of them 1 shilling Executors, wife and son
Moses.
(1596).— Test; MALCOM ALLEN, Robert Bowen,
Margaret is dead. Moses qualifies, with Hugh Cunning-
ham and George Dougherty.
(Chalkley Records; Vol. III. p. 88.)
"Order Book— 1755— 1756
James Cunningham, Gent., as 1st Lieutenant of company
of Foot in Spottsylvania Co. commission dated May 4, 1756.
James Cunningham, commission dated Sept. 2, 1755, En-
sign to Capt. Benjamin Pendleton took the oath Sept. 3,
1755.
(Virginia Co. Rec. Vol. I. Spotsylvania. Colonial Militia.
pp. 517-519.)
James Cunningham, commission dated July 27, 1763, to
be Lieutenant of a company of Militia. Took the oath
Aug. 1, 1763.
Other Families 489
RECORD OF MARRIAGES.
First Presbyterian Church Carlisle, Pa.
Jan. 4, 1798; William Allen Jennie McCommon
First Pres. Ch. Philadelphia.
6/19/1734; George Allen Mary Clemens
6/12/1718; Charles Allen Eleanor Dawson
10/30/1729 ; James Allen Dorothy Brooks
3/27/1729; Jeremiah Allen Susanna Flemming
3/17/1742 ; Mary Allen Charles Morrice
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
1/28/1718 ; Mary Allen Joseph Webb
7/26/1718; Nehemiah Allen, Jr Hannah Lownes
1/27/1713; Nathaniel Allen Hannah Webb
11/ 9/1682 ; Priscilla Allen Thomas Smith
4/27/1718; Richard Allen Mary Goforth
12/29/1752; Susanna Allen John Drinker
Falls Monthly Meeting.
9/20/1774; Ann Allen Joseph Paul
11/16/1784; Jane Allen Benjamin Shoemaker
10/15/1741 ; John Allen Elizabeth Large
2/13-1736; John Allen Elizabeth Welsh
5/23/1781 ; Samuel Allen Sarah Brown
490 SlGGINS AND
10/12/1808 ; Samuel Allen, Jr Sarah Warner
10/31-1786; William Allen Sarah Lancaster
Buckingham Monthly Meeting.
11/24/1738; Lydia Allen Robert Tucker
Second Pres. Ch. Phil.
Oct. 24, 1807; Ann Allen John Henry Miers
Apr. 5, 1781 ; Deborah Allen John Grove
Dec. 24, 1812 ; Harriet B. Allen John W. Hall
Feb. 28, 1793 ; Margaret Allen Edward Weir
Feb. 16, 1797; Mary Allen Robert C. Murray
July 25, 1801 ; Peter Allen Nancy Morgan
First Presbyterian Church Carlisle, Pa.
Dec. 9, 1797; Agnes Allen John Day
Nov. 14, 1788 ; Catherine Allen Samuel Gray
Feb. 20, 1794; Elizabeth Allen Henry Rumble
Sept. 16, 1794 ; Jennie Allen John Barr
Nov. 25, 1806 ; Jacob Allen Jane Spootswood
Sept. 10, 1789; Margaret Allen William McAlvy
Jan. 4, 1798 ; William Allen McCammon
St. Pauls Episcopal Ch. Chester.
May 6, 1704 ; Elizabeth Allen Samuel Addams
Elizabeth Allen, dau. of Daniel Robert Cobbs
Elizabeth Allen, m. Richard Roberts.
Other Families 491
THE ENFIELD AND EAST WINDSOR, CONN., FAMILY
OF ALLEN.
1733. SAMUEL ALLEN 1 , from Braintree, Essex Co.,
Eng., b. abt. 1588; came to Cambridge, Mass.,
1632 ; was bro. of Col. Matthew Allyn of Cam-
bridge, Mass., afterward of Windsor and Hart-
ford, Conn., and of Dea. Thomas Allyn of Mid-
dletown, Conn. He removed to Conn., and set-
tled in Windsor; juryman 5 Mch., 1644; and a
farmer. Land gr. by Town of W., see p.-150.
He was a man of public spirit and honored by
his fellow citizens with positions of trust; he
d. W. and was bu. 28 April 1648 (O. C. R) ; ag.
60; widow removed to Northampton, Mass., and
m. 2d, William Hurlburt, and d. at Northampton,
13 Nov., 1687. Mr. Allen's will was dated Sept.
8, 1648, inv. at 76. L. 18s. 8d. Children:
1734. i. SAMUEL Allen 2 , b. 1634; m. 29 Nov. 1659,
Hannah, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Blott)
Woodford; was freeman 1683; land granted
family Northampton 1657; d. at N. 18 Oct.
1718-19; was ancestor by his son Samuel 3 , gr.
son Joseph 4 , gr. gr. son Rev. Thomas 5 , of Rev.
William 6 , author of the first American Bio-
graphical Dictionary.
1735.* ii. NEHEMIAH Allen 2 , m. 1664, Sarah, dau. of
Thomas and Mary (Blott) Woodford. He d.
Northampton, 1684; was ancestor by son Sam-
uel 3 , gr. son Joseph 4 , of Gen. Ethan Allen 5 , of
Revolutionary fame; b. in Litchfield, Conn.,
1737.
492 SlGGINS AND
1736. iii. JOHN Allen 2 , m. 8 Dec. 1669, Mary, dau. of
Wm. Honor Hannum, b. 5 April 1650; he killed
by Indians, at Bloody Brook, Deerfield, Mass.,
18 Sept. 1675; had ch. John 3 , b. 30 Sept. 1670;
Samuel 3 , b. 5 Feb. 1673; Hannah 3 , b. N. May
1675.
1737. iv. REBECCA Allen-, and
1738. v. MARY Allen 2 , d. 1648, (0. C. R.)
1739. vi. OBADIAH Allen 2 , d. Middletown, Conn., 7
April 1723; m. 1st, 23 Oct. 1669, Elizabeth San-
ford, of Milford, Conn.; m. 2d, Mary, dau. of
John Savage, widow of John Whetmore, she d.
20 Oct. 1723. He was adopted by his uncle
Dea. Thomas of M., soon after his father's
death; res. at M. and after his uncle's d. 16 Oct.
1688 ; inher. most of his estate ; was adm. to M.
ch. by certif. from W. Ch. 2 May 1669; but
owned covt' 9 Nov. 1668, and was chosen deacon
31 May 1704. (From Ancient Windsor, p.-14.)
(1735). NEHEMIAH ALLEN 2 , son of Samuel and Ann
( ) Allen, lived in Salisbury Ct., and Northamp-
ton, where he d. June 27, 1684. He m. Sept. 21, 1664, Sarah,
dau. of Thomas and Mary (Blott) Woodford; she m. 2d,
Sept. 1, 1687, Richard Burke and 3d, July 11, 1706, Judah
Wright; d. in Nhn., March 31 1713. Children:
SAMUEL Allen 3 b. Jan. 3, 1665-6.
NEHEMIAH Allen 3 , b. Oct. 18, 1667; d. soon.
NEHEMIAH Allen 3 , b. Nov. 6, 1669 ; m. Ruth,
dau. of David Burt.
1743. iv. SARAH Allen 3 , b. Aug. 22, 1672; m. Joseph
Strong of Nhn.
1744. v. THOMAS Allen 3 , b. Jan. 17, 1675; d. the
next vear.
1740.*
1.
1741.
ii.
1742.
iii,
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1745. vi. HANNAH Allen 8 , bap. May 6, 1677.
1746. vii. RUTH Allen'-, b. Jan. or June 4, 1680 ; m. Dec.
16, 1702, Josiah Leonard.
1747. viii. Allen 3 , b. Aug. 12, 1683 ; d. soon.
1748. ix. SILENCE Alien 3 , b. 1684; d. 1691.
(1740). SAMUEL ALLEN 3 , son of Nehemiah and
Sarah (Woodford) Allen; b. 1666; in 1705 he bought the
Dr. Willard lot (in Deerfield) which he sold to Sam'l Barn-
ard in 1711; in 1713 he sold the Quartus Hawks home-
stead in Wapping to Eleazer Hawks, and soon thereafter
removed to Coventry, Ct., and d. before 1728. He m. Mercy,
dau. of Judah Wright; she d. in Litchfield, Ct., Feb. 5,
1728 ae. 59. Children:
1749. i. NEHEMIAH Allen 4 , b. Sept. 21, 1693, at Nhn. ;
d. young.
1750. ii. MERCY Allen 4 , b. June 24, 1695.
1751. iii. NEHEMIAH Allen 4 , Sept. 19, 1697; prob. sett.
in Guilford, Ct.
1752. iv. MARY Allen 4 , b. Oct. 22, 1699.
1753. v. HESTER Allen 4 , Feb. 26, 1704; d. at Deer-
field, Nov. 27, 1706.
1754.* vi. JOSEPH Allen 4 , b. Oct. 14, 1708, at Deerfield,
Mass.
1755. vii. DANIEL Allen 4 .
1756. viii. EBENEZER Allen 4 , b. Apr. 26, 1711, in Dfd.
1757. ix. LYDIA Allen 4 .
1758. x. LUCY Allen 4 .
(1754. JOSEPH ALLEN 4 , son of Samuel and Mercy
(Wright) Allen, b. 1708; of Litchfield, Ct., 1728 rem. to
Cornwall abt. 1740 and d. Apr. 4, 1755. He m. Mar. 6, 1736-
494 SlGGINS AND
7 Mary, dau. of John Baker; time of her death not
ascertained; and no confirmation of a tradition that she
was buried at Northfield, Mass. Children:
1759. i. ETHAN Allen 2 , b. Jan. 21, 1738, Litchfield,
Conn. ; d. Feb. 13, 1789, Colchester, Vt.
1760. ii. HEMAN Allen 3 , b. Oct. 15, 1740; d. in Salis-
bury, leaving a widow and one daughter:
i. LUCINDA Allen 6 , m. Moses Catlin, Esq.
The widow m. Mr. Wadhams and they left a
daughter:
Mrs. GUY. Catlin, who d. in Burlington.
1761. iii. LYDIA Allen 5 , b. April 6, 1741, m. Mr. Finch;
lived and died in Goshen, Ct.
1762.* iv. HEBER Allen 5 , b. Oct. 4, 1743; d. in Poultney,
western country and had 5 children.
1763. v. LEVI Allen 5 , b. Jan. 16, 1745, in Cornwall, Ct.;
d. 1801 in Burlington, Vt.
i. A daughter educated in the Bethlehem
School Pa.
1764. vi. LUCY Allen 5 , b. April 2, 1747; m. Dr. Bebee,
and lived and d. in Sheffield, Mass.
1765. vii. ZIMRI Allen 5 , b. Dec. 10, 1748 ; d. at Sheffield,
Mass.
1766.* viii. IRA Allen 5 , b. April 21, 1751, Cornwall, Conn. ;
d. Jan. 7, 1814 Philadelphia, Pa.; m. Jerusha
Enos, b. Feb. 6, 1764; d. May 6, 1835, dau. of
Maj. Gen. Jerusha Hay den Enos.
1767. i. HEBER Allen 6 , taught school in Milton,
Ga., and went west.
1768. ii. SARAH Allen 6 , m. Mr. Everets, settled
in Georgia.
1769. iii. JOSEPH Allen 6 .
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1770. iv. LUCY Allen 6 , m. Orange Smith, and
lived a while in Swanton.
1771. v. HEMAN Allen 6 .
(1766). IRA ALLEN 5 , the diplomatist and manager in
civil affairs, the great and most successful speculator of
the brothers, who with the brothers, at one time claimed
nearly all the lands for 50 miles along Lake Champlain ;
who probably did more towards the settlement and inter-
ests of this part of the country than any other man, and
by whose "unwearied efforts and profuse generosity the
Vermont University was located in Burlington" generally
the secretary of that well nigh omnipotent body, the Coun-
cil of Safety; who recommended to the council the con-
fiscation of Tory property to support the military forces of
the state, the chief negotiator with the British in Canada
by which a large army were kept inactive on our northern
frontier the last three years of the Revolution, and the
first treasurer of Vermont.
(From a biography by Thompson.)
This record is taken from the "Vermont Historical
Gazetter," by A. M. Hemenway, 1867, and "Hist, of Deer-
field," Vol. II. by George Sheldon.
(1759). ETHAN ALLEN 5 , son of Joseph and Mary
(Baker) Allen was b. Jan. 21, 1738, Litchfield, Conn.; d.
Feb. 13, 1789 at Colchester, Vt., or Burlington; where a
monument was erected to his memory by the State; he m.
March 11, 1763, Mary, dau. of Richard Bronson, of what is
now Roxbury, Ct.; she d. at Sunderland, Vt., 1783; was
buried at Arlington. He m. 2d, Feb. 16, 1784, Mrs. Frances
Montuzan, wid. of Capt. Buchanen, step dau. to Crean Bush,
b. April 4, 1760 (for a graphic account of this character-
istic wedding see Hall's Eastern Vermont) ; she m. 3d, Oct.
28, 1793, Hon. Jabez Penniman, of Westminster, Vt.
Children :
496 SlGGINS AND
1772. i. JOSEPH E. Allen 8 , b. abt. 1766; d. at Arling-
ton, 1777.
1773. ii. LORAIN Allen 8 , d. before 1783.
1774. iii. LUCY Caroline Allen 6 , m. May 26, 1789, Hon.
Sam'l Hitchcock, of Brimfield and Burlington,
and left a dau.
1775. LORAINE Allen Hitchcock 7 , b. June 5,
1790.
1776. iv. MARY Ann Allen 6 , d. 1791 unm. at Burling-
ton.
1777. v. PAMELIA Allen, m. Elieazer Keyes; they
both resided and d. at Burlington, N. H.
Children of 2d m.
1778. vi. FANNY Allen 6 , b. Nov. 13, 1784; well known
as the "Gray Nun of Montreal"; she entered a
Nunnery in Canada where she died.
1779.* vii. ETHAN Voltair Allen 6 , b. Feb. 3, 1786; grad.
of West- Point; Capt. U. S. Army; m. 1817,
Mary, dau. of John Bagnall ; and m. 2d, Martha
Washington Johnson; he d. at Norfolk, Va., in
1865.
1780. viii. HANNIBAL Allen 6 , b. Nov. 24, 1787; grad.
West Point, 1814; d. at Norfolk, Va., 1817.
(1779). Ethan Voltair Allen 6 , had a son:
ETHAN Voltair Allen of New York.
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ETHAN ALLEN AND FAMILY
(1759) "I have no doubt that many interesting and im-
portant facts and incidents in the early history of Ethan
Allen, might yet be rescued from oblivion. A few of those
which have never appeared in print I am happy in having
it in my power to supply. Having instituted a careful
inquiry with regard to the time and place of his birth, I
succeeded several years ago in obtaining from the town
clerk of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut a certified
copy of records in the town clerk's office in that town,
from which I derive the following facts, viz. That Joseph
Allen, father of Ethan Allen, resided in that town in 1728,
with his mother, Mercy Allen, who was then a widow;
that on the 11th day of March, 1736, he was married to
Mary Baker, by the Rev. Anthony Stoddard, of Woodbury.
Succeeding these facts in the records of the town of Litch-
field, we have the following statements, "verbatim et lit-
eratim."
"Ethan Allen ye son of Joseph Allen and Mary his wife
was born January ye 10th, 1737." Litchfield, Cornwall,
Salisbury, Roxbury and, I think, Woodbury have all been
honored as the birthplace of Ethan Allen. But the records
of the town of Litchfield which I have cited make it certain
that he was born there. Joseph Allen, the father of Ethan,
removed with his family to Cornwall, Ct., about the year
1740, and in that town were most of his children born, and
there he died on the 4th of April, 1755. Soon after Joseph
Aliens' death, Heman, his second son, engaged in mercan-
tile business in Salisbury, and after that period his house
became the home of the family.
Joseph Allen had six sons, of whom Ethan was the old-
est, their names were as follows : I. Ethan, b. Jan. 10,
1737-8; Heman, b. Oct. 15, 1740; Lydia, b. April 6, 1741;
498 SlGGINS AND
Heber, b. Oct. 4, 1743 ; Levi, b. Jan. 16, 1745 ; Lucy, b. April
2, 1747; Zimri, b. Dec. 10, 1748; Ira, b. 1751. Lydia mar-
ried a Mr. Finch, and lived and died in Goshen, Ct. ; Lucy
married a Dr. Bebee and lived and died in Sheffield, Mass. ;
Heber and Zimri, unlike their brothers never made them-
selves conspicuous in connection with political affairs.
Heber died many years ago in Poultney, Vt. He had two
sons, Heber and Heman. Heber went into the western
country and I know nothing further of his history. He-
man, Hon. Heman Allen, of Highgate, after the death of
his father was adopted into the family of his uncle, Ira.
Zimri, died at Sheffield, Mass. He came to Vermont (then
the New Hampshire grants) about the year 1766, leaving
his family at Sheffield, and from that time he regarded
this state as his home. At the time Ethan Allen came to
New Hampshire grants, the controversy between the set-
tlers and the claimants under New York had already com-
menced, and several actions had been brought in the courts
at Albany, for the ejectment of the settlers under New
Hampshire titles."
"The time will not allow me to go into particulars in re-
lation to the controversy between the first settlers of Ver-
mont, and the colony of New York in which Ethan Allen
acted so conspicuous a part. Nor is it necessary, since
these particulars are fully detailed in the published his-
tories of the state, and probably familiar to most of you.
While Ethan Allen was defending the rights of the set-
tlers on the New Hampshire grants, as their acknowl-
edged champion he was not indifferent to the conduct of
the mother country towards her American colonies; and
after the bloody affair at Lexington, he felt himself called
upon to engage in the cause of liberty and right, on a
larger scale. In accordance, therefore, with a request from
Connecticut, he undertook to surprise and capture the for-
tress of Ticonderoga. Having collected 230 Green Moun-
tain boys, he arrived with 180 of them at the lake, in Shore-
ham, opposite the fort, on the evening of the 9th of May,
1775. It was with great difficulty that boats could be pro-
Other Families 499
cured to cross the lake, and with all diligence, only 83 men
had been able to cross over the land near the fort, before
daylight the next morning. As any farther delay would
inevitably defeat their object, Allen placed himself at the
head of these, inspired them with confidence by one of
his laconic speeches, and then led them through a wicket-
gate into the fort. The garrison (except the sentries, who
were too much frightened to give the alarm) were in a
profound sleep, from which they were first awakened by
three hearty cheers from the Green Mountain boys, who
were drawn up in regular order within the fort. Allen
having ascertained the lodging place of the commander,
Capt. De Place, commanded him to come forth instantly
and surrender the fort, or he would sacrifice the whole
garrison. De Place soon appeared at the door and inquired
by what authority the surrender was demanded? "I de-
mand it," says Allen "in the name of the Great Jehovah
and the Continental Congress." These were authorities
which, with Allen's sword over his head, De Place did not
think it prudent to dispute. He therefore surrendered the
garrison at discretion.
From the time of the capture of the garrison at Ticon-
deroga, Ethan Allen cosidered himself enlisted in the cause
of American freedom. And, although he held no commis-
sion from congress, he lent his willing service to Gens.
Schuyler and Montgomery, who were ordered to advance
into Canada in the fall of 1775, and by whom he was en-
trusted with the command of certain detachments of the
army, and sent forward for the purpose of ascertaining
the feelings of the French settlers, and engaging them, if
possible, in the American cause. In one of these excur-
sions between Longeueil and LaPrarie, he met Maj. Brown,
with about 200 men, and it was agreed between them, that
they would attempt the capture of Montreal. Brown was
to cross the river during the night, a little above the city,
with his 200 men, and Allen, with 110 men, was to land
a little below the city, and in the morning at a concerted
signal, to assure each other that both were in readiness,
500 SlGGINS AND
they were to rush in on opposite sides, and take possession
of the city. With a few canoes and much labor, Allen suc-
ceeded in getting his men over in the course of the night,
and choosing his position. Here he waited with much
impatience, for a signal from Brown, that he had passed
over and was ready for an advance upon the city, but he
waited in vain. Brown did not pass over, Allen's position
and numbers soon became known in the city, and all the
forces that could be mustered were sent out to assault
them, and an obstinate battle ensued. Allen, deserted by
most of his Canadians, overwhelmed by numbers, and un-
able to retreat, was at length obliged to surrender at dis-
cretion. This event took place on the 25th of September,
1775, and for the space of 2 years and 8 months, Allen was
a prisoner in the hands of the British. He was loaded
with Irons and sent to England, and was treated with the
greatest cruelty, and indignity, but in all situations, wheth-
er chained down in the hold of the vessel, or walking upon
the deck, whether confined in the filthy and gloomy prison
on shore, or abroad on his parole, he was, in all places, he
was ETHAN ALLEN and no one else. Ethan Allen was
exchanged for Lieut. John Campbell, on the 6th of May,
1778. After waiting on Gen. Washington, at Valley Forge,
he returned to Vermont, where he unexpectedly, but to the
great joy of his friends, arrived on the 31st of May. The
news of his arrival was spread tFfrough the country. The
Green Mountain boys flocked around him, and gave him
a hearty welcome, cannons were fired in token of gladness
and there was a general rejoicing. As Washington was a
terror to the enemies of American Independence, so Ethan
Allen was a terror to the enemies of Vermont. He died
the 11th of February, 1789, and on the 16th, his remains
were interred with the honors of war. His military friends
from Bennington and parts adjacent attended and the pro-
cession was truly solemn and numerous. He was buried
in the graveyard at Winooski Falls."
Other Families 501
(1766) MAJOR GENERAL IRA ALLEN, of Vermont,
son of Joseph and Mary (Baker) Allen; b. April 21, 1751;
Cornwall, Conn.; d. Jan. 7, 1814, Philadelphia, Pa.; mar-
ried;
Jerusha Hayden, Enos; b. Feb. 6, 1764; d. May 16, 1835.
He was brother of Maj. Gen. Ethan Allen, of Ticonderoga
fame, of Major Heber, Captain Heman, Lieuts. Levi and
Zimri Allen of Vermont, all of the Revolutionary Army.
He was descended from Samuel Allen of Baintree, Eng-
land, 1588, who emigrated to New England 1632, in the
5th generation thus: Ira"', Joseph 1 , Samuel 3 , Nehemiah 2 ,
Samuel 1 , brother of Col. Mathew Allen, of Windsor, Conn.,
1632. Ira Allen was one of the most eminent citizens of
the State of Vermont. Children:
1781. i. ZIMRI Allen 6 .
1782. ii. IRA Hayden Allen".
1783. iii. MARIA Juliet Allen 6 .
(Hayden's Virginia Gene. p. 27).
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502 SlGGINS AND
SPENCER FAMILY.
"Of this family, which derive themselves from a younger
branch of the ancient Barons Spencer; men famous, many
ages since, in England (among which were Spencers Hugh,
father and son, favorites of Edward II.) was John Spencer,
Esq., son to John Spencer of Hoden-hull, in Com. War.
Which John, having purchased the great Manor of
Wormleighton, situate on the southern part of that county,
began the structure of a very fair Manor-House there, in
the 22d of Henry VII. This last mentioned John married
Susan, daughter to Sir Richard Knightley, in Com. North,
and had issue, Sir John Spencer, Kt., and by Margaret,
his wife, daughter of Robert Catline, Lord Chief Justice,
Robert, his son.
Which Robert, being a person of great estate, and for
other his deserts, was, in the first of Jac. I. advanced to
the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord
Spencer of Wormleighton ; shortly after, he was sent to the
Duke of Wirtemberg with the Ensign of the most noble
Order of the Garter. And by Margaret, his wife, daughter
to Sir Francis Willoughby of Woolaton, had issue, had four
sons: John, William, Richard, and Edward; also two
daughters MARY and Elizabeth." (Colling Peerage, pub.
1709).
"This was a branch issuing from the stock of the noble
house of Marlborough and Spencer. From an illustrious
line of progenitors arose WILLIAM SPENCER, Esq., of
Redburn, in the county of Warwick, anno. I. Henry VII.
(an estate forfeited to the crown, by the attainer of Sir
William Catesby, Esq., who married Elizabeth, sister of
Sir Richard Empson, Knt, and had with a daughter Jane,
two sons, John and Thomas. The elder Sir John Spencer,
SPENCER
SPENCER COAT OF ARMS.
Other Families 503
Knt., denominated of Snittersfield, in Warwickshire, which
estate he acquired with his wife, Isabel, daughter and co-
heir of Walter Grant.
(Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronets.)
"SIR JOHN SPENCER, KNT., of Wormleighton Co.,
Warwick, purchased that estate 3 Sept., 1506, and soon
after began the structure of the manor house there. He
was knighted by Henry VIII, and appears to have possessed
a large property in the counties of Warwick and Northamp-
ton; he was a notable housekeeper, liberal to his poor
neighbors and bountiful to his tenants and servants, re-
built the church of Wormleighton, as well as those of Bring-
ton and Staunton, Co. Northampton, and also bestowed
vestments and chalices on them. Sir John married Isabel,
dau. and co-heir of Walter Grant, of Snittersfield Co., War-
wick, and d. April 14, 1522, when he was survived by his
eldest son.
SIR WILLIAM SPENCER, KNT, of Wormleighton and
Althorp, Northampton, high sheriff of the latter co. 23 & 24
Henry VIII., knighted 1529. He married Susan, dau. of
Richard Knightley, Knt. of Fawsley, Northampton, and d.
22 June, 1532, leaving (with six daus.) an only son
Sir John Spencer, Knt. of Wormleighton and Althorp,
high sheriff Northampton 5 Edward VI., and M. P. for the
co., 1 Mary I. and 13 Queen Elizabeth; m. Katherine, dau.
of Sir Thomas Kitson, Knt. of Hengrave, Suffolk, and had
(with six daus.) five sons.
Sir John his heir.
SIR JOHN SPENCER, Knt. of Wormleighton and Al-
thorp, who was knighted 1588, and m. Mary, only dau. and
heir of Sir Robert Catlyn, Knt. of Berne, Dorset, Chief
Justice of the King's Bench by whom (who m. 2ndly, Ed-
ward Glascock, of Castle Hedingham, Essex), he had an
only son
504 SlGGINS AND
Robert (Sir) his heir. Sir John d. 9 Jan. 1599, and was
survived by his son
SIR ROBERT SPENCER, 1st Lord Spencer of Worm-
leighton, Warwick, was elevated to the peerage 21 July
1603, by the title of Baron Spencer of Wormleighton. This
nobleman appears to have been a very spirited member of
parliament, as his reply to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arun-
del in a debate upon the royal prerogative, in 1621 evinces.
"My Lord," said Howard, "when these things were doing,
your ancestors were keeping sheep" — "When my ancestors
were keeping sheep," replied Spencer, "your ancestors were
plotting treason." This excited such irritation, at the mo-
ment, that Arundel, as the aggressor, was committed to the
Tower; but soon after, acknowledging his fault, was dis-
charged. His Lordship m. 15 Feb., 1587, Margaret, dau.
and co-heir of Sir Frances Willoughby, of Woollaton. She
d. 17 Aug., 1597. He d. 25 Oct., 1627, and was survived by
his only living son
William, 2nd Baron Spencer, bapt. 4 Jan., 1591-2; m.
1617 Penelope, dau. of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of
Southampton, by whom (who d. 16 July, 1667), he had
(with other issue) :
1. Henry, 1st Earl
2. Robert, created Viscount Teviot, in the peerage of
Scotland, 1685, a dignity that expired with himself.
(From Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.)
LORD SPENCER.
Other Families 505
LORD ROBERT SPENCER.
"Lord Robert Spencer, Sheriff of Northamptonshire in
the forty-third year of Elizabeth, before which time he re-
ceived the honor of knighthood, and when King James as-
cended the throne, was reputed to have by him the most
money of any person in England. Ben Johnson alludes to
him in these lines:
"Who since Thamyra did die
Hath not brook'd a lady's eye
Not allow'd about his place
Any of the female race."
The grief of Sir Robert Spencer for the loss of his be-
loved consort, Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis Willough-
by, thus beautifully alluded to, was no poetic fiction. He
lost her in August, 1597 ; but though he survived her thirty
years, he never made a second choice. He was created
Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, July 21, 1603. The rec-
ords of the times gave him a very high character, being
spoken of as The old Roman chosen Dictator,' seldom
leaving his farm save when called to the Senate. During
the debates in Parliament, 1621, relating to the King's
power and prerogative, this Lord Spencer, standing up bold-
ly for the public liberty (with the Earls of Oxford, South-
hampton, Essex, and Warwick), made some allusion to the
past, and the Earl of Arundel replying thereto said, 'My
Lord, when these things were doing, your ancestors were
keeping sheep,' to which this Lord Spencer, with a spirit
and quickness of thought peculiar to him, immediately an-
swered: 'When my ancestors were keeping sheep (as you
say), your ancestors were plotting treason.' So says Wil-
son's Hist, of Great Britain, London, 1653, p. 163 ; but see
the more correct account given at length in 'Gardner's
506 SlGGINS AND
Hist, of England,' London, 1886, Vol. IV., pp. 114-116.
Lord Spencer d. October 25, 1627, and was buried in
great splendor with his ancestors at Brington. His son,
William, married Penelope, daughter of Henry Wriothesley,
Earl of Southampton. 'Lord Spencer was the great
friend of the Washingtons of Sulgrave,' ancestors of Gen.
George Washington."
(The Genesis of the U. S. A narrative of the movement
in England, 1605-1616, which resulted in the planta-
tion of North America by Englishmen, disclosing
the contest between England and Spain for the pos-
session of the soil now occupied by the United States
of America, Vol. II, p. 1021).
THE STARS AND STRIPES.
We are indebted to a patriotic English gentleman, Ed-
ward W. Tuffley of Porthampton, England, for the most
reliable and authentic history of the origin of our Stars and
Stripes, who discovered our Stars and Stripes, who discov-
ered our National Emblem to have been designed from the
coat of arms of the Washington family. In the church at
Brighton, England, which is the parish church for Althorp,
the ancestors of the Spencer family lie buried. In this
church is a memorial brass plate of the Washingtons, which
shows the arms of the family to have been the Stars and
Stripes. In the chancel is a monument to Lawrence Wash-
ington, which has a brass plate dated 1564, bearing the
Stars and Stripes.
Other Families 507
LINEAGE.
WILLIAM Spencer, Esq., m. Elizabeth Empson,
their son
SIR JOHN Spencer, Knt., m. Isabel, dau. of Walter Grant
of Snittersf ield ; their son
SIR WILLIAM Spencer, Knt. of Wormleighton ; m. Susan,
dau. of Richard Knightley ; their son
SIR JOHN Spencer; m. Katherine, dau. of Sir Thomas
Kitson; their son
SIR JOHN Spencer, m. Mary, dau. of Sir Robert Catlyn ;
their son
SIR ROBERT Spencer, m. Margaret, dau. of Sir Francis
Willoughby; their daughter
MARY Spencer, m. Sir Richard Anderson ; their son
RICHARD Anderson, m. ■ ; their son
ROBERT Andersor. of "Goldmine," Va.; their daughter
MARGARET Anderson, m. James Allen; their son
MALCUM Allen, m. Mary Cunningham ; their son
WILLIAM Allen, m. Elizabeth Tilford; their daughter
SARAH Ann Allen, m. Samuel Scott Walker ; their dau.
ELIZABETH Erma Walker, m. Benjamin Baird Siggins;
their daughter
EMMA Siggins, m. John Barber White ; their children
EMMA Ruth White, and
RAYMOND Baird White.
508 SlGGINS AND
LINEAGE
Washington of Northampton and Virginia.
Arms — Argent two bars and in chief three mullets Gules.
1. JOHN Washington, of Whitfield, co Lane.
2. ROBERT Washington, of Warton co., Lancaster ; m.
dau. of Westfield (1st wife.)
3. JOHN Washington of Warton co. Lane. ; m.
Margaret Kitson, dau. of Robert Kitson of Wharton
and sister of SIR THOMAS KITSON, Kt. and Alder-
man of London.
4. LAWRENCE Washington, of Northampton, m.
Anne (or Amy) Partiger — dau. of Rob't of Gretworth
gent. Ob. 7, Oct. 1564.
5. ROBERT Washington, of Sulgrave, Esq., m.
Anne Fisher, dau. of Fisher of Hanslop, co
Bucks.
6. LAWRENCE Washington, of Sulgrave and Brington.
Ob. 13 Dec. 1616; bur. 15 Dec, 1616, at Brington; m.
Margaret Butler eldest dau. of William Butler of
Tighes, Sussex, Esq. ; m. 3 Aug., 1588. Alive 1636.
7. LAWRENCE Washington, M. A. Fellow of Brasenos
Coll., Oxford, Rector of Purleigh, Essex (1633-1634).
Ob. ante 1654-5 ; m.
Amphillis Roades ( ?) dau. of Roades. Bur. at
Tring co., Herts. 19 Jan., 1654-5. Admin, gr. to son
John Washington.
8. JOHN Washington, b. in England (probably 1633 or
1634). Emigrated to Virginia; m. 2d.,
Ann Pope, dau. of Nath'l Pope.
Other Families 509
9. LAWRENCE Washington, d. 1697; m.,
Mildred Warner, dau. of Col. Augustine Warner.
10. AUGUSTINE Washington, d. April 12, 1743, aet. 49 ;
m. 2d., Mary Ball.
11. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. Feb. 11, 1732; First
President of the U. S. ; d. sp. Dec. 14, 1799 ; m. Jan. 6,
1759;
Martha Dandridge, widow of Daniel Parke Custis. and
dau. of John Dandridge.
(From Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol. I, p. 395,
by Henry F. Waters.)
LINEAGE.
i. ROBERT KITSON, of Warton co., Lancaster.
ii. SIR THOMAS Kitson, Kt. of Hengrave, Suffolk.
iii. KATHERINE Kitson, m.,
Sir John Spencer, Knt. of Wormleighton and Althorp,
high sheriff, Northampton 5 Edward VI., and M. P.
for the co. I. Mary I. and 13 Queen Elizabeth.
iv. SIR JOHN Spencer, Knt. of Wormleighton and Al-
thorp, who was knighted, 1588, and m.,
Mary Catlyn, only dau. and heir of Sir Robert Catlyn,
Knt. of Berne, Dorset, chief justice of the King's
Bench. Sir John d. Jan. 9, 1599 and was s. by his son.
v. SIR ROBERT Spencer, 1st Lord Spencer, of Worm-
leighton, Warwick.
vi. MARY Spencer, m.,
Sir Richard Anderson, of Penley, co. Hertford, Knt.;
will p. 27 Aug. 1632.
510 SlGGINS AND
vii. RICHARD Anderson, of Gloucester co., Virginia.
viii. ROBERT Anderson, of Goldmine, Virginia, m. abt.
1704.
ix. MARGARET Anderson, b. abt. 1717; m. abt. 1735;
m. James Allen.
x. MALCUM Allen; b. 1736; m.,
Mary Cunningham, dau. of James and Margaret ( )
Cunningham.
xi. WILLIAM Allen, b. 1760-5, in Adair co., Kentucky;
m. Elizabeth Tilford.
xii. SARAH Ann Allen, b. Dec. 25, 1810, Adair Co., Ky. ;
d. Nov. 1882 in Cowley co., Kans.; m., Jan. 24, 1832,
Samuel Sscott Walker, b. Jan. 30, 1807 in Ky. ; d. Jan.
22, 1892 in Florida.
xiii. ELIZABETH Erma Walker, b. Feb. 20, 1833, Adair
co., Ky.; d. Sept. 29, 1864, in Youngsville, Pennsyl-
vania; m. Feb. 24, 1865,
Benjamin Baird Siggins, b. July 27, 1827 in Youngs-
ville, Pa. ; d. June 14, 1903, in Youngsville, Pa.
xiv. EMMA Siggins, b. Feb. 6, 1857 in Chariton, Iowa ; m.
in Youngsville, Pa., Dec. 6, 1882,
John Barber White, b. Dec. 8, 1847, in Ellery Township,
N. Y.
xv. EMMA Ruth White, and Raymond Baird White.
ANDEB50N
ANDERSON COAT OF ARMS.
Other Families 511
ANDERSON FAMILY.
The Manor of Penley, which is partly within the parish
of Tring and partly in the neighboring parish of Aldbury,
but with its caput maneri, or manor house, in the former
parish, held 10 Edward I., by John d'Aygnel, and thence
descending finally to the family of Verney, was sold by Sir
Francis Verney to Richard Anderson, Esq., who held a
court there, Anno 5 Jac. I., and was knighted two years
afterwards. Sir Richard Anderson's wife, Mary, was
daughter of Robert, Lord Spencer, Baron of Wormleighton,
owner of the manor of Althorp in Northampton, .
This Sir Richard Anderson seems to have been by far the
most important parishoner then living in Tring, where he
died 3 August, 1632, and was buried within the chancel rail
of that parish church. His widow, dame Mary Anderson,
afterwards lived in Richmond Surrey, but was buried at
Tring, July, 1658. I examined the will of Sir Richard An-
derson. It follows:
SIR RICHARD ANDERSON, of Penley in the county of
Hertford knight, 5 October 1630, proved 27 August 1632.
To poor of Bitterly in Shropshire, Norton in Glostershire,
Corringham in Essex, Albury, Tring and Wigginton in
Hertfordshire, to each parish five pounds. To town of Tring
ten pounds to be added and employed, with that money
already there in stock, to set the poor on work, which money
of my own and some others given to that use is in ffeoffe's
hands at this time thirty pounds. To my uncle Francis
Garaway or if dead, amongst his children, twenty pounds;
to my Uncle Mr. John Bowyer and my two cousins, his sons
John and Francis, either of them, ten pounds. To my
brother in law Thomas Cowly, now consul at Sante, twenty
pounds.
512 SlGGINS AND
Item I bequeath to Mr. Robinson's two sons, one of Pem-
broke College the other of Albourne Hall, and to my cousin
Larance Washington of Brasenose and to Mr. Dagnall of
Pembrock College, to each of them forty shillings.
To my wife (over and above her jointure) bedding and
household stuff belonging in my father's time to a house he
had in Chiswick, &c &c. My bigger diamond ring to my
daughter Elizabeth. I will and bequeath to my dear and
only surviving sister the Lady Spencer of Offley twenty
pounds. To the Right Hon. the Lord Spencer, Robert Need-
ham Esq., Richard Spencer Esq., Sir Edward Spencer
knight and Sir Thomas Derham knight, my worthy broth-
ers-in-law, ten pounds each. Provision made for second son
ROBERT and third son JOHN, and two younger sons WIL-
LIAM and RICHARD (under one and twenty). Eldest
daughter ELIZABETH, second daughter MARY and third
daughter FRANCES (all unmarried). To five younger
daughters, MARGARET, KATHERINE, PENELOPE, ANN
and BRIDGET, Son HENRY. My wife Dame Mary. The
manor of Corringham in Essex.
Audley, 86 (P. C. C.)
(Genealogical Gleanings In England, Vol. I, p. 365 by
Henry F. Waters, A. M.)
ANDERSON, OF PENLEY. ENGLAND.
1784. SIR HENRY ANDERSON, knt. alderman of Lon-
don, and sheriff in 1602, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir William Bowyer, knt., and had
issue:
1785.* i. RICHARD Anderson, his heir.
1786. ii. CATHERINE Anderson, m.,
Sir John Dereham, knt.
Other Families 513
1787. iii. ELIZABETH Anderson, m.,
Thomas Cowley, esq., of London, and d. s. p.
1788. iv. FRANCES Anderson, m.,
Robert Needham, esq. of Sherington.
1789. v. SARAH Anderson, m„
Sir Charles Wilmot, Viscount Athlone.
1790. vi. MARY Anderson, m.,
Sir John Spencer, bart. of Offley.
Sir Henry Anderson, d. in 1605, and was succeeded by
his son:
(1785) SIR RICHARD ANDERSON, who married:
Mary, daughter of Robert, Lord Spencer of Wormleigh-
ton, and had issue : (as per will, see Walters Gleanings, Vol.
I, will dated 5 October 1630; pro. 27 August, 1632).
1791. i. HENRY Anderson (his heir) esq. of Penley,
in the county of Hertford, who was created
baronet by King Charles I, on the 3d, of July.
1643.
ROBERT Anderson.
JOHN Anderson.
WILLIAM Anderson "under one and twenty."
RICHARD Anderson, "under one and twenty."
ELIZABETH Anderson.
MARY Anderson.
FRANCES Anderson, "all unmarried." and
five younger daughters, Margaret, Katherine,
Penelope, Ann and Bridget.
(1795) RICHARD ANDERSON 1 , who on July 4th, 1635,
took the oath of allegiance and supremacy and to that con-
formable to the discipline of the Church of England, and
1792.
ii.
1793.
iii.
1794.
iv.
1795.*
v.
1796.
vi.
1797.
vii.
1798.
viii
514 SlGGINS AND
left England for Virginia, is the Richard Anderson, who is
mentioned in the will of Sir Richard Anderson (1632) of
Penley, County Hertfordshire, England, as "under one and
twenty," who settled in Gloucester City, Virginia, owing
to the destruction of many early records his immediate
descendants cannot be positively traced, but, he is said to
have been the ancestor of the Anderson's of "Goldmine"
New Kent County, Va. (New Kent County was taken from
York, in 1634, and Hanover County was taken from
New Kent, in 1720, Goldmine when first established was in
New Kent but after 1720 in Hanover County.)
1799. ROBERT ANDERSON-, son of Richard, was granted
April 16, 1683, 727 acres in New Kent, for the
importation of fifteen persons, he was the first
Anderson of "Goldmine."
In the Parish Book of New Kent, 1686, he is shown
to have been a vestryman of St. Peter's until the
Parish of St. Paul was cut off in 1704, in which
latter Parish he remained Vestryman until his
death in 1712, aged about 72 years. He married
Cecelia Massie (a descendant of the Massie's, who
arrived in Virginia about 1635.) Children:
1800. i. RICHARD Anderson 3 , who was a magistrate
in King and Queen County, 1699-1702.
1801. ii. DAVID Anderson 3 , whose son was an officer
in the New Kent Militia in 1700.
1802. iii. MATTHEW ANDERSON 3 .
1803. iv. JOHN Anderson 3 , who was greatgrandfather
of Capt. of the 3rd and 5th Virginia, and mar-
ried,
Mary Anderson, dau. of Robert Anderson 4 .
THOMAS Anderson 3 .
NELSON Anderson 3 .
MARY Anderson 3 .
1804.
v.
1805.
vi.
1806.
vii
Other Families 515
1807. viii. CECILIA Anderson-.
1808.* ix. ROBERT Anderson \ who married,
Mary .
Note — one of the above-mentioned sons married a
Garland.
ANDERSON FAMILY OF VIRGINIA.
(1808) ROBERT ANDERSON 3 , on October 23, 1690, as
Robert Anderson, Jr., took over the 727 acres in New Kent,
which was granted to his father for the importation of fif-
teen persons and on the same date received 1200 acres for
the importation of twenty-four persons, and in 1702 ap-
pears as Robert Anderson, Jr., as vestryman of St. Peter's
Parish, New Kent.
In 1704 on the formation of St. Paul's he appears as
Capt. Robert Anderson, and his father as Robert Anderson,
Sr..
At this time there were but two Robert Anderson's in the
vestries of St. Peter's and St. Paul's and in deeds.
This captaincy appears to have been of a parish militia,
which originated in 1612 when the whole colony was an
armed camp. At this time and long afterward the An-
dersons, Massies, Garlands and Overtons were regular
members of the vestry of St. Paul's.
He died in 1716 aged about 53 years; he married Mary
. Children, as shown by parish records and deeds :
1809. i. RICHARD Anderson 4 .
1810. ii. JAMES Anderson 4 .
1811. iii. GARLAND Anderson 4 , m. Marcia Burbridge,
of Norfolk.
1812. iv. MATTHEW Anderson 4 .
516 SlGGINS AND
1813. v. DAVID Anderson 4 , of Albemarle; m.
Elizabeth Mills.
1814.* vi. ROBERT Anderson 4 , of "Gold Mine" ; b. Jan-
uary 1, 1712.
1815. vii. NATHANIEL Anderson 4 .
1816. viii. CHARLES Anderson 4 , m. Janet Cliborne.
1817.* ix. JOHN Anderson 4 .
1818. x. CHARITY Anderson 4 .
1819. xi. SARAH Anderson 4 .
1820.* xii. MARGARET Anderson 4 , m. James Allen.
Note — Edward Lowell Anderson, in his history of the
Andersons of Goldmine, Hanover County, Vir-
ginia, says : the wife of this Robert Anderson, was
Mary Overton, dau. of William and Elizabeth
(Waters) Overton, and Hay den, in his Virginia
Genealogies, says Mary Overton, dau. of William
and Elizabeth (Waters) Overton, married David
Crosby.
(1814) ROBERT ANDERSON 4 , known as "Robert of
Gold Mine." b. January 1, 1712; d. December 9, 1792; m.
July 3, 1739:
Elizabeth Clough, b. April 3, 1722 ; d. November 10, 1779,
daughter of Richard and Annie (Poindexter) Clough, who
were married in June, 1718. Children :
1821. i. RICHARD Anderson 5 , who died in infancy.
1822. ii. ROBERT Anderson 5 , b. August 10, 1741 ; m.
Elizabeth Shelton.
1823. iii. MATTHEW Anderson 5 , b. Dec. 6, 1743 ; m.
Mary Dabney.
1824. iv. ANN Anderson 5 , b. January 21, 1745 ; m.
Anthony New, M. C.
Other Families 517
1825. v. CECILIA Anderson*, b. August 2, 1748; m.
William Anderson.
1826.* vi. RICHARD Clough Anderson", b. January 12,
1750, d. Oct. 16, 1826; m. 1st
Clark ; m. 2nd Marshall.
1827. vii. ELIZABETH Anderson"', b. Nov. 24, 1752 ; m.
Reuben Austin.
1828. viii. GEORGE Anderson 5 , b. May 27, 1755 ; m. 1st
Goldsborough ; m. 2nd
Jane Tucker.
1829. ix. SAMUEL Anderson 3 , b. June 25, 1757 ; m.
Ann Dabney.
1830. x. MARY Anderson"', b. May 18, 1759 ; m. 1st
Capt. John Anderson, her cousin ; m. 2nd
Elkannah Talley.
1831. xi. CHARLES Anderson 5 , of "Gold Mine" d. un-
married.
(1814) ROBERT ANDERSON 4 ,of "Gold Mine" was
vestryman of St. Martin's Parish; magistrate in 1768; his
will was probated January 30, 1793; in it he bequeathed
to his son Robert a plantation of 410 acres, on which the
said son Robert now lives; to George and Samuel as ten-
ants in common eight hundred and twenty acres, the di-
vision to be made so that each shall include the plantation
and residences where they now reside ; no mention is made
of "Gold Mine," nor of a plantation for his sons Matthew
and Richard Clough, and it is thought that Matthew had
already been given his share in the Gloucester property and
that "Goldmine" was given before his death to Richard
Clough Anderson under condition, that the father should
have the use of it during his life.
(1817) JOHN ANDERSON 4 , Robert', Roberts Rich-
ard 1 , of Gloucester Co., Va., b. about 1714-16 in Hanover
—34
1835.
i.
1836.
ii.
1837.
iii.
1838.
iv.
518 SlGGINS AND
Co., Va. ; d. about 1787-9; will probated at Staunton, Va.,
1789 ; m. Jean , she was living in 1789.
Children :
1832. i. JOHN Anderson 5 , bpt. Oct. 19, 1740.
1833.* ii. ROBERT Anderson 5 , b. Nov. 15, 1741; m.
Nov. 4, 1765, Ann Thompson.
1834. iii. JEAN Anderson 5 , bpt. April 29, 1744; m. 1st
Nov. 6, 1765.
Lieutenant Hugh Allen, bro. of James ; she m. 2nd
William Craig, b. 1750 ; d. 1829.
Children of 1st marriage:
JOHN Allen 6 .
WILLIAM Allen 8 .
HUGH Allen 8 .
A daughter 6 , these children removed in
1784 to Kentucky.
1839.* iv. JAMES Anderson 5 , bpt. Mar. 6, 1748 ; m. Dec.
10, 1771,
Agnes Craig, dau. of James and Mary (Laird)
Craig.
1840.* v. ANDREW Anderson 5 , b. about 1750 ; d. about
1823 ; was in the Revolutionary War. Col. An-
derson was a member of the legislature many
years ; m. 1st, name unknown ; m. 2nd, Martha
Crawford, dau. of Patrick and Sally (Wilson)
Crawford ; b. May 10, 1761.
1841. vi. WILLIAM Anderson 5 , b. about 1752, m.
Mary Craig, b. May 10, 1752; d. Jan. 16, 1778.
(1840) Children of Andrew Anderson and 1st wife:
1842. i. DR. GEORGE Anderson 8 , of Montgomery
County.
1843. ii. A daughter 8 , m. Brown of Ky.
Other Families
519
1844. iii. ELIZABETH Anderson 6 , m. Major Wil-
liam Poage, of Augusta Co.
(1840)
1845.
1846.
1847.
1848.
1849.
1850.
Children of Andrew and Martha (Crawford)
Anderson :
iv. JOHN Anderson", d. in Montgomery Co.,
no issue.
v. JAMES Anderson 8 , d. in Montgomery Co.
no issue.
vi. ROBERT Anderson 6 , m. Dancy Dean;
lived and died on his farm on Middle River.
vii. WILLIAM Anderson 6
La.
d. in New Orleans,
viii. NANCY Anderson 6 , m. Wm. Crawford
of North Mountain, son of Alexander and
Rachel (Lesley) Crawford.
ix. SALLIE Anderson 6 , m. Jacob Ruff.
(Supplemental Annals of Augusta Co. p. 455)
(1826) RICHARD CLOUGH ANDERSON 4 , of Soldiers
Retreat, Kentucky, b. Jan. 12, 1750; d. Oct. 16, 1826; m.
1st Ann Clark, sister of the celebrated George Rogers Clark,
d. Nov. 13 ; m. 2nd, 1797, Sarah Marshall, b. Nov. 20, 1779 ;
d. Aug. 25, 1854.
Children of 1st marriage:
1851. i. RICHARD Clough Anderson 3 , b. Aug. 4, 1788,
d. June 24, 1826 ; representative from Ky. ; first
minister to Columbia, S. A.
1852.
1853.
1854.
ii. ANN Clark Anderson 5 , b. Apr. 27, 1790; d.
Nov. 13, 1863, m. John Logan.
iii. CECELIA Anderson 5 , b.
Dec. 11, 1863.
Mar. 18, 1792; d.
iv. ELIZABETH Clark Anderson 5 , b. Dec. 7, 1794,
d. March 27, 1870 ; m. Mr. Gwathmey.
520 SlGGINS AND
Children of 2nd marriage:
1855. v. MARIA Williams Anderson 5 , b. Sept. 1, 1778,
m. Mr. Latham.
1856. vi. FRANCES Marshall Anderson 5 , b. Oct. 29,
1800; d. Dec. 2, 1802.
1857. vii. LARZ Anderson 5 , m. Apr. 9, 1803; d. Feb. 27,
1879.
1858. viii. ROBERT Anderson, hero of Fort Sumpter,
b. June 14, 1805; d. Oct. 26, 1871.
1859.* ix. WILLIAM Marshall Anderson 5 , b. June 24,
1807.
1860. x. MARY Louise Anderson 5 , b. March 13, 1809 ;
m. Judge James Hall.
1861. xi. JOHN Anderson 5 , b. Aug. 20, 1811; d. July
13, 1863.
1862. xii. HUGH Roy Anderson 5 , b. Aug. 20, 1811 ; d.
Feb. 1, 1812.
1863. xiii. CHARLES Anderson 5 , b. June 1, 1814.
1864. xiv. LUCELIA Poindexter Anderson 5 , b. Feb. 19,
1817; d. Aug. 13, 1820.
1865. xv. MATTHEW Marshall Anderson 5 , b. April 3,
1819; d. Oct. 29, 1820.
1866. xvi. SARAH Jane Anderson 5 , b. June 9, 1822 ; m.
Mr. Kendricks.
• (1859) WILLIAM MARSHALL ANDERSON 5 , b. June
24, 1807, in Jefferson Co., Ky.; d. in Circleville, O., Jan.
7, 1881, went to Salt Lake with trappers 1834, surveyor-
gen. Va. Military land dist., 1835, farmer, archaeologist;
m. Apr. 1835, Eliza, dau. of Duncan and Nancy (Mc-
Donald) McArthur, gr. dau. of John and Margaret (Camp-
bell) Mc Arthur, who migrated from Scotland to N. Y. 1769,
Other Families 521
he, Duncan, served as brigadier-general U. S. A. during the
war of 1812, Gov. of Ohio. His son:
1867. THOMAS McArthur Anderson 6 , of Ohio, b. near
Chillicothe, O., Jan. 21, 1836. M. A. Mt. St.
Mary's Coll., Md., lawyer, practiced in Ky. and
2nd lieut. 5th cav. May 7, 1861, capt. 12th infty.
of 21st infty. maj. 21st infty., of 10th infty.,
lieut.-col. 9th infty., col. 14th infty., Sept. 6,
1886. Col of 14th U. S. infty., member of Loyal
Legion, Soc. Sons, of the Amer. Revolution;
married Feb. 8, 1869, Elizabeth VanWinkle, dau.
of Charles and Rebecca (Straton) VanWinkle,
gr. dau. of Walter VanWinkle, son of Abraham,
son of Jacob, son of Hendrick, son of Jacob Van
Winkle of Hudson, N. Y., came from Holland
about 1660, had six children: Arline, Eliza-
beth, Mary, Thomas, Charles and Irmingard.
(American Ancestry, Vol. 7, p. 239).
(1839) JAMES ANDERSON 5 , b. in Augusta; bapt.
in the old stone church March 6, 1748. He m. Dec. 10,
1771, Agnes Craig, dau. of James and Mary (Laird) Craig,
moved to South Carolina before the Revolutionary War
and settled first near Rock Mills, in what was then Pendle-
ton District, but which is now known as Anderson County,
he removed to the head waters of Rock river, on Beaver
Dam Creek, and his plantation was later owned by Richard
H. Anderson, his grandson. James Anderson served as a
captain in the Revolutionary army and died Sept. 9, 1813.
He is buried in the old Carmel Church graveyard, not far
from Pendleton, South Carolina. Agnes Craig, his wife,
was born April 10, 1754, and died 1838.
Children :
1868. i. MARY Anderson , m. James Watson.
1869. ii. ROBERT Anderson 6 , moved to Mississippi.
522 SlGGINS AND
1870. iii. SARAH Anderson 6 , m. William Orr ; moved to
Jackson Co., Ga.
1871. iv. JANE Anderson 6 , m. McKensie, after
his death she removed to Mississipi.
1872. v. JAMES Anderson , removed to Alabama
where he married Miss Kinkade.
1873. vi. NANCY Anderson 6 , m. John Matthews and
removed to Jackson Co., Ga.
1874. vii. GEORGE Anderson 6 , removed to Benton Co.,
Missouri; m. there and 1849 removed to Texas
and settled near Henderson. He was father of
11 children.
1875. viii. ANN Anderson 6 , m. James Orr, of South Car-
olina, they had five children.
1876. ix. WILLIAM Anderson 6 , b. June 9, 1790, in
South Carolina; d. May 12, 1853, in S. C; m.
Sept. 16, 1824.
Miss Mary McEldowny Hunter, b. May 25, 1802,
d. June 1, 1884.
1877. x. ELIZABETH Anderson 6 , m. Saxon Anderson,
who was not related to her. They removed from
South Carolina to Marietta, Ga., and afterwards
to Talladge, Ala.
1878. xi. MARGARET Anderson 6 , d. in infancy.
(1832) ROBERT ANDERSON 5 , was baptized Nov. 15,
1741, by the Rev. John Craig at the old Stone Church. He
married Ann Thompson of Augusta, Nov. 4, 1765, and re-
moved to South Carolina a few years prior to the Revolu-
tion and settled in the western portion of the state near
Pendleton. He first located on Long Cane Creek, in what
is now Abbeville County, but after the massacre in the
neighborhood of Fort Ninety-six he removed to Waxhaws,
now Lancaster, South Carolina, and after quiet was re-
stored about Fort Ninety-six returned to that neighborhood,
Other Families 523
finally making his permanent home near Pendleton, as
above stated. He served with distinction as a colonel in
the war of the Revolution and was made general of the
State Militia.
Children :
1879. i. ANNE Anderson 6 , m. Dr. William Hunter and
had:
1880. i. DR. JOHN Hunter, m. Kittie Calhoun
and removed to Selma, Alabama.
1881. ii WILLIAM Hunter 7 , m. Clayton.
1882. iii. ANN Hunter 7 , m. John Smith.
1883. iv. MARY Hunter 7 , m
Rev. David Humphreys.
1884. v. ANDREW Hunter 7 , name of his wife not
known.
1885. ii. LYDIA Anderson 6 , m. Samuel Maverick and
had issue :
1886. i. ELIZABETH Maverick 7 , m. Mr. Weyman
(this couple had three children, a son named
Joseph, and a daughter who married a Mr.
Thompson, of Memphis, Tenn. Joseph
Weyman married Emily Maxwell, of Pen-
dleton, South Carolina and their son Sam-
uel now resides in New York City.
1887. ii. LYDIA Maverick 7 , who m. William Van
Wyck, of New York. Issue: Samuel Mav-
erick Van Wyck who m. Margaret Broyles
and had two sons. He was a surgeon in the
Civil War and was killed in battle in Ten-
nessee. Zemah, m. a gentleman of New
York, name unknown, and d. leaving two
daughters. William married a Miss Battle,
a dau. of President Battle of the University
of North Carolina. Augustus, of New York
524 SlGGINS AND
City for years a judge of one of the su-
perior courts of N. Y. ; in 1898 the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of New York,
but was defeated by Theodore Roosevelt.
Robert Anderson, Democratic Mayor of N.
Y., and the first mayor of "greater" N. Y.
Lydia who m. Mr. Holt of North Carolina,
son of ex-Governor Holt of that state. The
third child of Lydia Anderson and Samuel
Maverick was named Augustus. He re-
moved to Texas and became one of the
largest land and cattle owners in the world.
1888. iii. ELIZABETH Anderson , m. General Robert
Maxwell of the Revolution ; issue :
1889. i. JOHN Maxwell 7 , m. Elizabeth Earle.
1890. ii. ANNE Maxwell 7 , m. Dr. Andrew Moore.
1891. iii. ELIZABETH Maxwell 7 , m. 2nd
Mr. Caruth and had
LOUISA Caruth; m. General James Gill-
man of Greenwood, S. C.
1892. iv. ROBERT Anderson 6 , m. Maria Thomas, of
Nassau, New Providence Island; they had ten
children
1893. i. ROBERT Anderson 7 , m. Mary Pickens,
gr.-dau. of Genl. Andrew Pickens.
1894 ii. Edward; iii. Edmund; iv. Thomas; iv.
John; v. Julius; vi. William; vii. Henry;
viii. Anne, m. Joseph Harris.
Other Families 525
ANDERSON FAMILY. .
"A supplication from the people of Beverly Manor, in the
back parts of Virginia," was laid before the Presbytery of
Donegal, September 2nd, 1737 — "requesting supplies. The
Presbytery judged it not expedient for several reasons to
supply them this winter; but ordered Mr. Anderson
(James) to write an encouraging letter to the people to
signify that the Presbytery resolves, if it be in their power
to grant their request next spring." Mr. Anderson was
the bearer of the petition of the Synod of Philadalphia, to
Governor Gooch of Virginia made at the request of John
Caldwell and others, in 1738, to obtain protection in the
exercise of their religious preferences. Having been kind-
ly received, he visited the emigrants in the valley with as-
surances from the Governor, of protection in the exercise
of their consciences in matters of religion, and encourage-
ment to extend their settlement.
Foote's Sketches of Va., 2nd S., p. 27.
"Those first settlers in the valley were mostly Presby-
terians, but those in New Providence, I believe wholly so,
at least in name. Near the South Mountain were several
families of the name of Moore — others of Steel near them
M. Clung — -and Fulton — and Beard Toward the North
Mountain, on Hays and Walker's Creek, were two families
of Hays, three or four Walkers of the same stock, and their
brother-in-law James Moore In the midst were
three of the Berry family, one of Tedford, one M. Camp-
bell, two or three M. Croskys, and a Coalter family. In the
course of a few years other families came and settled among
them, their names were: M'Nutt, Weir, Campbell, Ander-
son, Gray, Patterson and others.
Foote's, p. 58.
526 SlGGINS AND
Some Anderson Marriages.
Bedford Co., Va.
1759 Jacob Anderson m. Mary Calloway.
1783 Wm. Anderson m. Sally Earl, guardian Wm. Callo-
way.
Goochland marriage bond.
Sept. 23, — 86. William Anderson m. Martha Hancock.
Died—
Nov. 15, 1776-7 Dr. Andrew Anderson of New Kent.
(W. M. Q.)
1736-7, February 18,
William Anderson and Sarah Pate, dau. of Matthew
Pate. Their son:
James Anderson, m. , dau. of John Tyler, of
Essex Co. They had among others:
Robert Anderson, of Williamsburg, b. in Gloucester
Co., Va., October 22, 1781 ; married
Helen Maxwell Southall, widow of Peyton Southall,
and dau. of Alexander and Elizabeth McAulley.
(Vol. V.WM & M. Quar. p. 279).
1769, January 26,
Benjamin Anderson and Judith Mimms, dau. of David
Mimms, of Goochland County.
1786, Sept. 23,
Nathaniel Anderson and Elizabeth Carr, dau. of John
and Barbara (Overton) Carr.
(Vol. VII. WM & M. Quar., pp.92-105-108.)
Other Families 527
1763, February 28,
John Woodson and Mary Anderson, dau. of Thomas
Anderson of Henrico County.
1704, HENRY ANDERSON, of Amelia County, m. Patience
Stratton, dau. of Edward (b. 1655) and Martha
(Shippy) Stratton. Their dau.
Anne Anderson m. Benjamin Ward, of ''Sheffield."
Their son:
Rowland Ward, (Maj. in Rev. War), m. Rebecca Jones,
dau. of Richard Jones and Margaret ( ),
his 1st wife. Their dau.
Anne Ward, m. Robert Jones, son of Peter and
(Archer) Jones, of Amelia Co. Their dau.
Eliza Royal Jones, m. Thomas Goode, of Amelia Co.,
Va., and Cole Co., Missouri. Their dau.
Francis Melvina Goode, m. David English Humphreys,
son of
George and Janet (Henderson) Humphreys,
Gr-son of
David and Catherine (Keyes) Humphreys,
Gr-gr-son of
Lieut. John and Ann (North) Humphreys, who was
dau. of Lieut. Roger North of Pennsylvania.
Gr-gr-gr-son of
David and Catherine (Lewis) Humphreys,
Gr-gr-gr-gr-son of
John and Catherine ( ) Humphreys of Phila-
dalphia, Pa.
Lieut John Humphreys was Ensign in "Light Horse"
Harry Lee's battalion of Light Dragoons, Rev..
War, 2nd Aug., 1779.
528 SlGGINS AND
Lieut. John Humphreys, 4th Continental Artillery, 2d.
August, 1779, served 17th June, 1783; member of the So-
ciety of Cincinnati. (Ref. Heitman's Hist. Reg. p. 234).
David Humphreys, his son, who m. Catherine Keyes,
served in the War of 1812, as Sergeant in the Company of
his brother Col. George Washington Humphreys. He lost
his right arm in the battle of Blandensburg. (Ref. Rec.
War Dept.).
David English Humphreys, his grandson, when a lad of
19, enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, June 16, 1846, mustered
into service same date as corporal in Company G. Dona-
phan's 1st., Mounted Infantry, Mexican War, served until
June 21, 1847, when he was mustered out at New Orleans.
(Rec. War Dept).
Frances Melvina (Goode) Humphreys, was a descend-
ant of the Immigrant John Goode, of "Whitby" on the
James River, near Richmond, Va. He was b. about 1620,
in the North of Cornwall, Eng., and came to Virginia
prior to 1660. (Ref. "Virginia Cousins," by G. Browne
Goode, p. 273). She was also a descendant through her
mother, Eliza Royal (Jones) Goode, of Peter Jones,
"Founder" of Petersburg, Va., and his wife Elizabeth
"Bess" Wood, dau. of Gen. Abraham Wood, of Jamestown,
Virginia.
The line being:
GENERAL ABRAHAM WOOD 1 ; b. 1610, came to Vir-
ginia in the "Margaret and John" in 1620
his daughter
Elizabeth ("Bess") Wood 2 ; m. Peter Jones, founder of
Petersburg, Virginia
their son
Peter Jones 3 ; Captain of Prince George Militia, lived in
Bristol Parish, will dated Jan. 19, 1721, proved Jan.
MARTHA (HUMPHREYS) MALTBY.
Other Families 529
10, 1726; mentions wife Mary. She was daughter of
Thomas and Mary ( ) Batte
their son
Abraham Jones 4 ; m. Sarah Batte, sister of Henry Batte;
she d. in Amelia Co.
their son
Peter Jones' 1 ; b. Nov. 2, 1733; will d. Oct. 13, 1797; m.
1 Archer
their son
Robert Jones 6 ; will pr. 1804 in Amelia Co., Va.; m. June
5, 1783, Ann Ward, dau. of Rowland and Rebecca
(Jones) Ward, grand dau. of Benjamin and Ann (An-
derson) Ward
their daughter
Eliza Royal Jones 7 ; b. Oct. 24, 1796 ; d. Jan. 29, 1851 ; m.
Nov. 15, 1815 in Amelia County, Virginia, Col. Thomas
Goode; b. Sept. 21, 1781, in Amelia Co., Va.; d. Feb.
13, 1842, in Cole Co., Missouri
their daughter
Frances Melvina Goode 8 ; b. Feb. 17, 1833, in Amelia Co.,
Va.; d. Aug. 27, 1872, in Pleasant Hill, Missouri; m.
Jan. 31, 1854, David English Humphreys; b. Oct. 13,
1827, in Charlestown, W. Va.; d. Jan. 9, 1886, in St.
Louis, Missouri,
their daughter
Martha Humphreys ; married Arthur Norman Maltby
they have an only child
Louise Humphreys Maltby.
530 SlGGINS AND
McCORKLE FAMILY
1895.* JAMES McCORKLE 1 . Children:
1896. i. ALEXANDER McCorkle 2 .
1897. ii. SAMUEL McCorkle 2 .
1898. iii. PATRICK McCorkle 2 .
1899.* iv. JOHN McCorkle 2 ; b. abt. 1740.
Captain James McCorkle. He served in the Cherokee
war. (McAllister's Virginia Militia in the Rev. p. 133).
Section No. 150).
James McCorkle, Captain (p. 218, Section 271 — Mont-
gomery).
The name of Samuel McCorkle 2 , is found in McAllister's
Virginia Militia in the Revolution, page 280, from Green
County, Kentucky; among the list of Pensioners residing
outside of Virginia in 1835 whose Pensions were granted
for service as Virginia Militiamen.
Notable Tracts of Land, Surveyed by John Floyd, Han-
cock Taylor and James Douglas, in 1774-5, lying mostly
in Kentucky:
June 3, 1774, Jas. McCorkle, 1000 acres, Bear Grass
Creek, Br. of Ohio.
Mar. 23, 1774, Samuel Scott, 40 acres, The Narrows,
Giles County.
(Hist, of S. W., Va. and Wash. Co., by Summers).
Other Families 531
First Census of the U. S. 1790. State of North Carolina.
Names of Heads of Family. Males Females
Salisbury District
over 1(
> over 16
Othe
Rowan County.
McCorkle, Alexander, Sr.
2
McCorkle, John
2
2
McCorkle, Alexander, Jr.
1
3
McCorkle, Samuel
1
1
4
Salisbury District
Mecklenburg Co.
McCorkle, John
1
1
3
McCorkle, Archabald
1
1
McCorkle, James
1
4
2
McCorkle, Thomas
2
2
Morgan District
Lincoln Co.
McCorkle, Frank
2
3
4
Hillsborough District
Wake County.
Ruth, Elizabeth
3
Ruth, George
2
4
6
10
(1899) JOHN McCORKLE 2 , James 1 , b. abt. 1740;
d. in Virginia; m. abt. 1765;
Elizabeth Ruth; b. March 7, 1740, in Augusta Co., Va.,
dau. of John Ruth and his wife. She d. in Ken-
tucky where she had gone with her children in 1784. They
lived near Lexington. Children :
1900.* i. MARTHA McCorkle 3 ; b. July 12, 1768, in
North Carolina; m. August 5, 1783, in Vir-
ginia,
Samuel Scott, son of John and Margaret (Thorn-
ton) Scott; b. 1762, in North Carolina; d. De-
cember 12, 1820, in Jasamine Co., Ky., was bur-
ied at Middleburgh, Ky.
1901.* ii JOSEPH McCorkle 3 ; b. Feb. 10, 1770, in Au-
gusta Co., Va. ; d. June 21, 1843 ; m. abt. 1794,
532 SlGGINS AND
Hannah Scott; b. April 15, 1753; d. June 26,
1823; dau. of John and Margaret (Thornton)
Scott.
1902. iii. WILLIAM McCorkle 3 ; b. Dec. 1, 1771 ; mar-
ried abt. 1796,
Jane Gooden, and had a daughter:
ELIZABETH McCorkle*; b. June 27, 1797.
1904. iv. JAMES McCorkle 3 ; b. April 12, 1773; d.
un-m.
1905. v. PEGGY McCorkle 3 ; b. March 13, 1775; m. in
Virginia,
John McClary.
1906. vi. ELIZABETH McCorkle 3 ; b. February 20,
1778; married,
William Hillis.
1907. vii. JOHN McCorkle 3 ; b. June 3, 1780; married,
Mary Ann Macomson (or Makimson).
(1901) JOSEPH McCORKLE 3 , and Hannah (Scott)
McCorkle's children were:
1908. i. NANCY McCorkle 4 ; b. Aug. 19, 1795; d. in
infancy.
1909. ii. BETSY McCorkle 4 ; a twin of Nancy also d.
in infancy.
1910. iii. POLLY McCorkle 4 ; b. May 21, 1797; d. Sept.
5, 1821, near St. Louis, Mo.; n\. July 16, 1818.
Mica j ah Wyatt, they had two children.
1911. iv. JAMES McCorkle 4 ; b. April 20, 1799; d. in
Richmond, Ind., July 22, 1857; m. September
23, 1824,
Ann Young, they had eleven children.
1912. v. ANDREW McCorkle 4 ; b. November 21, 1800 ;
d. in Putnam Co., Ind., January 29, 1870.
Other Families 533
1913. vi. MATTHEW McCorkle 4 ; b. January 25, 1803;
d. near Brainbridge, 111., March 1, 1884; m.
April 21, 1825,
Margaret Patton, they had four children.
1914. vii. PEGGY McCorkle 4 ; b. February 14, 1805 ; d.
Aug. 3, 1855; married
Zelick Magner, they had five children.
1915. viii. JOHN McCorkle 4 ; b. March 12, 1807; d. near
Richland, Ind., January 4, 1850; m. March 13,
1828,
Sally Young, they had eleven children.
1916. ix. ZIBBEAH McCorkle 4 ; b. January 4, 1809; d.
Aug. 1854; m. December 28, 1828,
John Harrison, they had seven children.
1917. x. EMILY McCorkle 4 ; b. September 5, 1811; d.
at Paris, 111., October 10, 1884; m. March 12,
1833,
John Osborne, they had five children.
Margaret, the second wife of Joseph McCorkle', d. Dec.
13, 1859.
ROBERT McCORKLE, who lived in Virginia, was a
Revolutionary soldier, he had a daughter, Mary, (1789-
1825) who married John Morrison in Virginia. They later
moved to Ohio, and thence to Illinois. Miss Estelle Ress
Morrison, of Omaha, Nebraska, is a descendant of this
Robert McCorkle.
-35
534 SlGGINS AND
RUTH FAMILY
Calendar, Delaware Wills-Newcastle County 1682-1800
Hitchcock. Pages 39-126-7.
1. SAMUEL RUTH 1 ; Yeoman ; b. . in ; m.
Mary 17 in . Had children. Lived in
Newcastle County, Delaware. He died January 28, 1748;
will probated February 7, 1748. Following children men-
tioned in his will:
i.
JAMES Ruth 2 .
ii.
JOSEPH Ruth 2 .
iii.
ALEXANDER Ruth :
iv.
GEORGE Ruth 2 .
*v.
SAMUEL Ruth 2 .
**vi.
JOHN Ruth 2 .
vii.
WILLIAM Ruth 2 .
viii.
MARY Ruth 2 .
*SAMUEL RUTH 2 ; (Sr.)
ware;
b. , in ; :
(Sr.) of Newcastle County, Dela-
m. Ann , 17 — in .
Had children. Lived in Newcastle County, Delaware,
where he died February 17, 1792. His will was probated
June 16, 1792 (N. 280). In addition to the following
children the will mentioned William Scott and Robert
Bryan. Executors were his sons William and Samuel,
(page 126-7, of above Calendar of Wills).
i. WILLIAM Ruth 3 ,
ii. SAMUEL Ruth 3 ,
iii. MOSES Ruth 3 .
Other Families 535
iv. BENJAMIN Ruth 3 ,
v. ROBERT Ruth 3 ,
vi. GEORGE Ruth 3 ,
vii. MARY Ruth 3 ,
viii. ELIZABETH Ruth 3 ,
ix. FRANCES Ruth 3 .
**JOHN RUTH 2 ; (of Virginia) had a daughter Eliza-
beth, who married John McCorkle, (ancestor of Pierson W.
Banning,) to whom we are indebted for the above record.
VIRGINIA IN THE REVOLUTION
By McAllister
p. 228. Alexander Walker; (July, 1778); S. L. S.
p. 228. John Tedford ; Ens. S. May 4, 1779.
p. 228. Alexander Tedford ; Capt. S. Nov. 7, 1780,
Rockbridge Co., Va.
p. 228. John Baird; Cap. A. July 12, 1781.
p. 193. William Scott; En. A. Sept. 13, 1781; nice
Hanly under J. Baird.
p. 195. Anthony Thornton, Jr. ; Lieut. Col. S. Nov.
1777.
p. 195. George Thornton ; Lieut. S. Dec, 1777.
Arthur Connelly ; En. S. Feb. 20, 1782 ; 2nd
Battalion.
David Gray; Captain, 1777.
p. 38. Capt. John McCorkle's Company serving against
the Cherokee Indians 150.
(Note. "It is very probable that some of these Com-
536 SlGGINS AND
panies may have gone out from Washington County in-
stead of Montgomery, but I am listing them under this
head").
p. 42. Captain David Gray's Company was in service
against the Indians in Greenbrier County, 123,
105, 125.
p. 42. Capt. James Hall's Company, Capt. Camp-
bell's Company, Capt. David Gray's Company
were in service around Richmond, 109, 137.
p. 42. Capt. David Gray's Company was at the Siege of
York, 105.
p. 190. Hugh Allen, (Big Mouth), S. L. R. May 10, 1781,
under Pryor.
p. 192. Col. George Poage, S. Sept. 3, 1778.
p. 126. Gen. Stephens was wounded and Captain Tilford
was killed at the battle at Guilford.
Other Families 537
SCOTT FAMILY
'The Scott Coat of Arms and Traditions that cluster
around the Scott Family" from an article by Eleanor Lex-
ington :
To trace one's ancestry back to the time of Moses is not
given to every family. More than ordinarily full of inter-
est, therefore, is the tradition regarding the family of
Scott. One historian asserts that the name originated
from Scota, daughter of that Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who
was drowned in the Red sea. Gathelus, son of the first
king of Athens, was so troublesome that his family sent
him to Egypt, where he married Scota. To escape from
the plagues of which we read in the Bible, Gathelus and
Scota, with a large number of Greeks and Egyptians, put
to sea, and finally landed in what is now Scotland, thus
named in honor of Pharaoh's daughter.
FIRST OF THE AMERICAN SCOTTS.
In this country the name is common in the southwest
and northwest. Richard Scott is regarded in genealogical
parlance as the "emigrant ancestor," or the "settler," "the
pilgrim" or "Richard of the first generation." He and
three brothers who came over in the seventeenth century,
settling in Boston, Newport and Providence, are regarded
as the progenitors of the American family of Scotts.
"The ancient family of Scott has been seated at Great
Barr, in the Co. Stafford, from the reign of Edward I. In
1296 a member of this family who was detained a prisoner
in London, and restrained with the rest of his country-
men from passing to the north of the river Trent under
pain of losing their heads, fixed himself as near that stream
538 SlGGINS AND
as the thick forest of Cannock (now stripped of its woods)
would allow."
(Burke's Peerage).
SCOTT'S HALL
"Scott's Hall was in the parish of Sneath, near Ashford,
in Kent, and long the residence of William Baliol le Scot,
a brother of John Baliol, King of Scotland. The property
was sold in 1784 to John Honeywood, and afterwards
alienated to the late Sir Edward Knatchbull, who pulled
down the house. Hasted says it was of the time of Henry
VIII. ; but from rough sketches of the building in the pos-
session of one of the Scott family, who lived to be nearly
ninety, it was conjectured to have been much more an-
cient."
"SIR GEORGE CARTERET'S daughter Caroline, mar-
ried 1663, Thomas Scott, eldest son of Sir Thomas Scott
of Scott's Hall, and his wife Catherine."
"1659-60. Thomas Scott made Intelligencer, M. P., Jan.
10, made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth, Jan-
uary 17th following."
"THOMAS SCOTT, recently made Secretary of State,
had signed the King's death-warrant, for which he was
executed at Charing Cross, 16th October, 1660. He and
Luke Robinson were members of Parliament, and of the
Council of State, and selected as firm adherents to the
Rump, to watch Monk's proceedings ; and never was a mis-
sion more signally unsuccessful. Scott, before his execu-
tion, desired to have it written on his tombstone "Thomas
Scott, who adjudged to death the late King."
"LADY CAROLINE SCOTT, second daughter of Sir
George Carteret, was wife of Sir Thomas Scott, of Scott's
Hall, Kent. (July, 1665)."
(Diary of Samuel Pepys).
Other Families
539
BAKER FAMILY OF ENGLAND.
"The family of Baker was settled at Cranebroke, in Kent,
so early as the reign of Edward III, and from one of its
younger branches descended THOMAS BAKER, of Rush-
ington, whose daughter and heiress Margaret, m. to John
Selden, was mother of the learned John Selden.
THOMAS BAKER, of Sisinghurst, Canbrook, Kent, was
father of
RICHARD BAKER, living temp, Henry VII whose son
SIR JOHN BAKER, knt. of Sisinghurst, adopting the le-
gal profession attained considerable eminence, and when
a young man was sent ambassador to Denmark. On his
return he became Speaker of the House of Commons, and
was soon after appointed attorney general and sworn of
the privy council, but gained no further preferment until
1545, when, having recommended himself to the king by his
activity in forwarding a loan in London and other imposts,
540 SlGGINS AND
he was made chancellor of the Exchequer. HENRY VIII
constituted him an assistant trustee for the minor suc-
cessor, after whose accession his name is scarcely men-
tioned in history, except in one instance, which ought not
to be forgotten: he was the only privy councellor who
steadfastly denied his assent to the last will of that prince,
by which Mary and Elizabeth were excluded from inherit-
ing the crown. He was successively recorder of London,
attorney and chancellor of the Exchequer. He was like-
wise a privy councellor to Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary
and Elizabeth. Sir Richard m. Elizabeth, daughter and
heir of Thomas Dinly, and widow of George Barret, by
whom he had issue:
i. SIR RICHARD Baker, his heir.
ii. SIR JOHN, of London, who m.,
Catherine, daughter of Sir. Reginald SCOTT,
knt. of Scott's Hall, and left a son.
i. SIR RICHARD BAKER, b. about the year
1568, the celebrated CHRONICLER. This
distinguished writer m.,
Margaret, daughter of Sir George Manwar-
ing, of Ightfield; d. 18th Feb., 1645, was
buried in St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street.
*iii. ELIZABETH Baker, m.,
SIR THOMAS SCOTT, knt. of Scott's Hall.
iv. CECILIA Baker, m. to the Lord Treasurer Dorset.
v. MARY Baker, m. to
GEORGE Tufton, of Heathfield, in Kent.
Sir Richard, d. in 1558, and was interred at Sisinghurst,
where he possessed a fine estate formerly belonging to the
family of DeBerham, and a noble mansion built by himself,
Sisinghurst Castle, which remained for centuries with his
descendants, but has since, bowed down its battlements to
the unfeeling taste of modern times. His eldest son and
heir,
Other Families 541
Sir Richard Baker, knt. of Sisinghurst, entertained Queen
Elizabeth in her progress into Kent, July 15, 1573. He
m. 1st Catherine, daughter and heir of John Tirrel, young-
est son of Sir Thomas Tirrel. Their son
John Baker, esq. of Sisinghurst, succeeded his father in
1594. He m. Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Guilford, knt.
of Hempsted, in Kent, and had with a daughter, Catherine,
wife of Edward Yates, esq. of Buckland, two sons, Henry
and Edward. The elder
Henry Baker, esq. of Sisinghurst, was created a Baronet
29th June, 1611. He m. Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir
John Smith, knt. of Osterhanger and dying in 1623 was s.
by his son
Sir John Baker, of Sisinghurst, who m. Elizabeth, daugh-
ter and heir of Sir Robert Parkhurst, knt. and by her who
died in 1639 left at his decease, in 1653 an only surviving
child.
Sir John Baker, of Sisinghurst, who m. Elizabeth, daugh-
ter and heir of Sir Robert Newton, bart. of London, and
by her (who wedded, secondly, Philip Howard, and died
in 1693), had four daughters, his co-heirs.
i. ANNE Baker, m. to
Edmund Beaghan, esq. and dying in 1685, left
a son
i. EDMUND Stungate Beaghan, esq. of Sising-
hurst, who sold in the year 1730, to the
trustees of Sir Horace Mann, knt., his por-
tion of the Sisinghurst estates.
*ii. ELIZABETH Baker, m.
Robert Spencer, esq. and d. s. p. in 1705.
iii. MARY Baker, m. to
John Dowel, esq. of Over, in Gloustershire, and
had a son,
i. JOHN Baker Dowel, esq. of Over, who d. in
1738, and was s. by his son,
i. JOHN Baker Bridges Dowel, esq. of
Over, who d. in 1744, bequeathing his
interest in the Baker estates to Rev.
542 SlGGINS AND
Staunton Degge, who conveyed them
to Galfridus Mann, es., father of Sir
Horace Mann.
iv. KATHERINE Baker, m. to
Roger Kirby, and d. in 1733.
Sir John Baker died in 1661, and leaving no male issue,
the Baronetcy expired, while his estates passed to his
daughters, from whose heirs they were purchased by Sir
Horace Mann's family.
Arms-Az. on a fesse between three swans' heads
erased and ducally gorged or, as many cinqueloils gu.
Created 20th June, 1611.
Extinct 28th Mar., 1661.
(Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronets.)
LINEAGE.
THOMAS BAKER, of Rushton.
Thomas Baker, of Sisinghurst, Canebrook, Kent, was
father of
Richard Baker, living temp Henry VIII, whose son
Sir John Baker, m.
Elizabeth Dinly, their son
Sir Richard Baker, m.
Catherine Tirrell, their son,
John Baker, m.
Mary Guilford, their son,
Henry Baker, m.
Catherine Smith, their son,
Sir John Baker, m.
Elizabeth Parkhurst, their son,
Sir John Baker, m.
Elizabeth Newton, their daughter,
Elizabeth Baker, m.
Robert Spencer, esq., and d. s. p. 1705.
Other Families 543
SCOTT PEDIGREE.
SIR REGINALD SCOTT 1 , of Scott's Hall, Kent, cap-
tain of the castles of Calais and Sangatte ; High sheriff of
Kent, 1541-42; was principally engaged abroad in military
service; died December 16, 1554. He married first Em-
meline, daughter of Sir William Kempe, of Ollantigh, Kent
and had by her Sir Thomas, (see hereafter), and two
daughters. He married secondly Mary, daughter of Sir
Bryan Tuke, of Layer Marney in Essex, secretary to Cardi-
nal Wolsey, and had by her Mary, who married Richard
Argall, and three other daughters, and Charles 2 and four
other sons, Charles was of Egerton in Godmersham; he
married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Wyatt of Arllington
Castle, Kent (minister temp Henry VIII; beheaded, sec-
ond Mary), by Jane daughter of Sir William Hawte of Kent
Mrs. Jane Scott was sister of George Wyatt of Boxley.
Sir Moyle Finch's sister Jane married October 8, 1582,
George Wyatt, Esq., of Boxley, and Sir Moyle's brother Sir
Henry Finch, was father of Sir John Finch, one of the
counsel for Sir F. Gorges, in the dispute over the N. E.
charter in 1621. Sir John was the speaker who was forced
back into the chair by Holies and others on the memorable
February 25, 1628-9.
SIR THOMAS SCOTT 2 , eldest son of Sir Reginald, was
a distinguished man; sheriff of Kent, 1576; knight of the
shire in Parliaments of 1571 and 1586; commander-in-
chief of the Kentish forces assembled on Northbourne
Downs in 1588, to repel the threatened Spanish invasion;
died December 30, 1594. He married first, Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir John Baker, by whom he had a very large
family ; according to some accounts 17 children. Sir John
Baker was speaker of the first Parliament of Edward VI.
544 SlGGINS AND
(1547-1552), which was the first thoroughly Protestant
Parliament. His second son John Baker, married Catherine
Scott, (sister of Sir Thomas Scott, aforesaid), and they
were the parents of Sir Richard Baker, the chronicler. Of
the children of Sir Thomas Scott and Elizabeth Baker
1 — THOMAS Scott 3 , eldest son, married, first Mary Knatch-
bull; secondly, Elizabeth Honywoodj, daughter of
Thomas Honywood, of Sene, by his wife Margaret
Bedingfield, of Bellaview, Kent. Elizabeth Scott,
widow of Thomas Scott, lived at Sene in Newington
near Hythe, and died there without issue, aged 60, in
1627; and was buried in Brabourne Church where her
tomb remains.
2— SIR JOHN Scott 3 , d. Sept. 24, 1616, and was buried in
Brabourne Church, Kent. He was twice married but
died without issue. His first wife was Elizabeth,
widow of Sir William Drury, and daughter of Sir Wil-
liam Stafford, by his wife, Lady Dorothy, who was the
daughter of Henry Lord Stafford, only son of Edward
last Duke of Buckingham of that line, who was be-
headed in 1521. Sir John Scott married secondly prior
to September 17, 1599, Catherine, daughter of Mr.
Customer Smythe, and widow of Sir Roland Hayward.
She survived Sir John about six months and died early
in 1617, aged fifty-six.
3 — RICHARD Scott 3 , who married Catherine, daughter of
Sir Rowland Hayward.
4— ELIZABETH Scott 3 , married first, John Knatchbull;
secondly Sir Richard Smythe.
5 — Emeline Scott 3 , married Robert Edolpe.
6 — MARY Scott 3 , married, first, Anthony St. Leger, and
secondly Alexander Culpeper, of Wigsell.
7— ANTHONY Scott 3 , who may be Ensign Anthony Scott.
8— ROBERT Scott 3 , of Smeeth, m. Priscilla, dau. of Sir
Thomas Honywood.
Other Families 545
Visitations of Kent — 1663-8. For the early portion of
this pedigree see Visitations of Kent, 1619. Harlean Soc.
Pub. XLII. 127.
"The known members of the Scott family among the
early emigrants to New England, were RICHARD SCOTT,
of Providence, who landed at Boston in 1633-4; JOHN
SCOTT, of Long Island fame, who came over in 1642-3;
JUDGE EDWARD SCOTT, of Newport, R. L, and his
cousin JAMES SCOTT, about 1710. The male line of
each has become extinct, except that of Richard; unless
as some suppose, John Scott, left a son John (as shown
by a pedigree in the family of the late Dr. William Jenks,
of Boston), who it is thought received a grant of land in
East Jersey from Sir George Carteret, in consideration of
the services rendered by his father, in procuring, from the
Duke of York, the grant of East Jersey to Sir George and
Lord Berkley. Richard, Edward and James Scott were from
a younger branch of the Scotts of Scotts-Hall, seated at
Glemsford Suffolk, since the sixteenth century. Richard
Scott is regarded in genealogical parlance as "the emigrant
ancestor," or "the pilgrim" or "Richard of the first genera-
tion." He and three brothers who came over in the seven-
teenth century settling in Boston, Newport and Providence,
are regarded as the progenitors of the American family of
Scotts. The pedigree of the duke of Buccleuch was traced
through Richard le Scot of Murdiston, county Lanark, one
of the Scotch barons, who swore fealty to Edward I. in
1296 ; being the same period at which the Baliols acknowl-
edged Edward as their lord-paramount ; confirming the as-
sertion of Philpot that the family of the duke and the Scotts
of Scotts-Hall had a common ancestry in the Baliols. There
are grounds for the belief that the Scotts of Great Barr,
Staffordshire, sprung from the Baliols; a portion of their
arms being three Catharine wheels, as in the arms of the
Scotts of Scotts-Hall . The Scotts of Scotts-Hall,
Kent, trace their pedigree in an unbroken line through Der-
vorgille, the mother of William Baliol Scot, to Fergus, king
of Scotland, in the time of Alexander the great; to Rollo
546 SlGGINS AND
first duke of Normandy ; Baldwin first count of Flanders ;
Henry I, Emperor of Germany; Waldimere the Great of
Russia ; Romanus I., of the Greek Empire ; Alfred the Great ;
William the Conqueror ; and finally to Charlemagne ; mainly
through female branches ; also to David I. of Scotland ; and
Siward, earl of Northumberland, by a different line. The
old Norman church at Babourne, Kent, contains many mon-
uments of the Scotts of Scotts-Hall; some of which date
back to the thirteenth century.
(New. Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg. Vo. XXIII., p. 128.)
RICHARD SCOTT of Providence, was son of EDWARD
SCOTT of Glemsford, Suffolk, Eng.
Richard Scott came in the Griffin 1634, his wife Cath-
erine was dau. of Rev. Francis Marbury of London and
Bridget Dryden, sister of Sir Erasmus Dryden, grandfather
of the poet Dryden.
(Water K. Watkins.)
Edward Scott 1 of Glemsford
Children :
GEORGE Scott 2 .
FREDERICK Scott 2 .
MATTHEW Scott 2 .
EDWARD Scott 2 .
RICHARD Scott 2 , now (1640) in New England.
(Genealogical Gleanings in Eng., Vol. II, p. 1287).
URSULA SCOTT was the daughter of Henry Scott of
Rattlesden, Eng., as appears from the following extract
from Henry Scott's will :
Will of Henry Scott:
"To Abigale Kemball my grandchild twentie shillings to
be paid at 21 — to Heneri Kemball my grandchild twenty
Other Families 547
shillings to be paid at 21 — to Elizabeth Kemball my grand-
child twenty shillings to be paid at 21 — to Richard Kem-
ball my grandchild twenty shillings to be paid at 21.
Mentions also sons Roger and Thomas Scott and wife
Martha."
"This will was made 24 Sept 1623, in 21st year of James
of England, by Henry Scott of Rattlesden in the County
of Suffolk and diocese of Norwich, it was proved in the
Court of the Arch deacon of Sudbury — 10 January 1624-5."
"Henry Scott was buried at Rattlesden December 24,
1624."
(Parish Register).
"Thomas Scott came with his wife and children to this
country in the same vessel as Richard (Kemball) and they
brought Martha Scott with them. As Thomas Scott set-
tled in Ipswich, this may have had some influence in caus-
ing Richard (Kimball's) removal from Watertown."
(Kimball Genealogy.)
THOMAS SCOTT OF IPSWICH.
Thomas Scott 2 came from Ipswich 1634 — aged 40 with
wife, Elizabeth, aged 40 ; and children :
i. ELIZABETH, 9 yrs.;
ii. ABIGAIL, 7 yrs. ;
iii. THOMAS, 6 yrs.
Thomas 2 was freeman 4 March following; made will 8
mar., 1654; names each of these children as living, but that
Thomas was at Stamford and mentions younger children:
HANNAH,
SARAH
MARY.
548 SlGGINS AND
In same ship came Martha, aged 60, probably mother
of this Thomas, and Richard Kimball, 39, by Scott in his
will 20 yrs. later called brother.
At Boston, Co., Lincoln, in 1630, was one Thomas Scott
that may have been the same as the preceding or the fol-
lowing Thomas (of) Hartford 1637 had been perhaps of
Cambridge, was killed 6 Nov. 1643, carelessly by John Ewe,
for which he was fined 5 pounds to the Colony and 10
pounds to the widow. After being wounded he made a non-
cupative will, held good though incomplete, as not naming
overseers, provided for widow Ann ; son Thomas and three
daughters. That son was infirm in body and mind, per-
haps both, and lived not long; and the widow m. 7 Nov.
1644 Thomas Ford and died at Northampton, May, 1675.
One daughter, Mary married at same time as her mother,
Robert Porter, and Sarah, married 5 Dec. 1645, John Stan-
ley, and the other, Elizabeth, married John Loomis of
Windsor.
(Savage)
JOHN STANLEY 1 , born in England, date not known,
embarked for New England in 1634-5, died on his passage,
leaving three children with an estate in goods and money
amounting to one hundred and sixteen pounds.
His children were :
i. JOHN Stanley 2 , b. 1624, m. Sarah Scott, and 2n 1,
Sarah Stoddard.
ii. RUTH Stanley-; m. Isaac More.
iii. An Infant d. 1634.
Sarah Scott, (wife of John Stanley 2 ) was dau. of Thomas
and Ann Scott of Hartford.
(The Stanley Family, by Israel Warner, D. D., pub. 1887)
John Loomis, b. in England, 1622, m. Feb. 3, 1649, Eliz-
Other Families 549
abeth Scott, dau. of Thomas Scott of Hartford. He was a
Deacon many years, and Deputy to Gen. Court 1666-87. He
d. Sept. 1, 1688. He was son of Joseph and Mary (White)
Loomis.
(Ancestry of John Barber White, p. 231.)
THOMAS SCOTT OF STAMFORD.
"Thomas (of) Stamford, son of Thomas the first had m.
at Ipswich Margaret daughter of William Hubbard the
first, sister of the historian and had Thomas, and died
1657, his widow m. Ezekiel Rogers.
(Savage Gen. Die.)
"EZEKIEL ROGERS 4 , b .probably at Ipswich, Mass. ; m.
Mrs. Margaret, (widow of Mr. Thomas Scott of Ipswich)
sister of Rev. Wm. Hubbard, was graduated at Havard Col-
lege, 1659, and d. July 5, 1674.
Margaret Rogers 5 , (b. probably at Ipswich, Mass.) ; m.
Rev. William Hubbard of Ipswich, who was born in Eng-
land, 1621, and came to N. E. 1630, son of Mr. Wm. Hub-
bard (an ancient inhabitant of Ipswich, afterwards of Bos-
ton, to which place he removed about 1662 — "a learned man,
being well read in State matters, of a very affiable and
humble behavior, though he be slow in speech he is down-
right for the business").
(New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. Vol. V. p. 142.)
"JOHN KIMBALL 2 , Richard 1 , was b. in Rattlesden,
County of Suffolk, England, in 1621, and came to America
with his father. He settled in Ipswich, Mass., and died
there May 6, 1698. In a deposition made in 1666 he says
he is 35 years old, and his nephew, Philip Fowler, testify
"That Mary wife of Thomas Patch, Abigail Bosworth
(probably wife of Haniniel Bosworth), and Elizabeth Spof-
ford were daughters of Thomas Scott, Sr. In 1666 he was
—36
550 SlGGINS AND
appointed attorney for Thomas Scott, of Stamford, Ct, son
of Thomas Scott, Sr., late of Ipswich, and brother-in-law
of Richard Kimball, Sr.
Thomas Scott's will was approved March 8, 1653-4, and
mentions children Thomas, Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah,
Sarah, Mary and brother Richard Kimball. Thomas Scott,
Jr., was in the Indian War, under Capt. Lathrop, when he
was killed at Squakeheage (Northfield), Mass., Sept. 8,
1675.
(Hist, of Kimball Fam., Vol. I, p. 39.)
LINEAGE.
THOMAS Scott 1 .
HENRY Scott 2 , of Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England, d.
1623; m. Martha Whatlock.
THOMAS Scott 3 , of Ipswich; m. Elizabeth Kimball.
THOMAS Scott 4 , of Stamford, Ct., d. 1675, m. Margaret
Hubbard.
THOMAS Scott", of London, received grant from Wm.
Penn, Chief Proprietor, &c, 1681, which was later con-
veyed to George Walker.
SAMUEL Scott", in Bromingham, Chester Co., Pa., Mar.
1715, land trans.
JOHN Scott 7 ; 1706-1774, m. 1740, Margaret Thornton.
SAMUEL Scott 8 ; 1762. in North Carolina, d. 1820, m. in
Virginia 1783, Martha McCorkle.
ELIZABETH Scott 1 ' ; 1788, d. m. 1803, Woodford
Co., Ky., Alexander Walker, 1779—
SAMUEL Scott Walker 10 , b. 1807, d. 1892, m. Jan. 26, 1832,
Sarah Ann Allen, b. Oct. 25, 1810, d. Nov. 1882, Cow-
ley Co., Kansas.
Other Families 551
ELIZABETH Erma Walker 11 ; 1833-1864; m. 1856, Ben-
jamin Baird Siggins.
EMMA Siggins 1 -; m. JOHN BARBER WHITE.
KING PHILIP'S WAR.
"Credited with military service at the garrison at Brook-
field and "Quabaug" June 24, 1676— Thomas Scott— p. 118.
"Hadley was at this time the headquarters of the Eng-
lish, and probably Capts. Lathrop and Beers, with their
companies were there on Sept. 1st. It is certain they
were there on the 2d. and were organizing a force to bring
off the garrison at Northfield. But on that day (Thursday,
Sept. 2nd), while this expedition was in preparation, and
the Northfield people were abroad in the fields at work,
a large body of Indians suddenly fell upon that town, killed
many of the people as they fled from their homes and
fields towards the garrison, burned all their exposed houses
and destroyed cattle and crops. There were sixteen fam-
ilies in the town. The English killed at this time, accord-
ing to Russell's list were eight."
"Thomas Scott."
In the history of Northfield (by Temple and Sheldon is
additional information — Scott, Ipswich ( ?) — p. 130.
"In Felt's Ipswich it is stated that Thomas Scott (killed
at Northfield) as also Caleb Kimball" and others — p. 139.
"At the Garrison at Brookfield, or "Quabaug"; July 24,
1676. Thomas Scott— p. 357.
WILL OF HENRY SCOTT.
1918. Henry Scott, (spelled Skott, in will) , of Rattlesden,
England, yeoman, will dated September 24, 1623, proved
January 10, 1624.
552 SlGGINS AND
"To my wife Martha the house where I now dwell &c,
during her natural life, after that to my son Roger Skoot
and his heirs forever.
To Abigail Kemball my grandchild forty shillings at her
age of one and twenty years.
To my grandchild Henry Kemball twenty shillings at
the age of one and twenty, and the same sum to my grand-
children Elizabeth and Richard Kemball at same age.
To my son Thomas Skott five pounds within one year
after my decease.
To Mr. Peter Deveruex, minister of Rattlesden ten shil-
lings.
Wife Martha to be executrix."
(Bury Wills Book, Pearle, L. 177).
"It was this very Martha Scott (Skott), who, with her
son Thomas Scott and her daughter Ursula Kembold or
Kemball, and the latter's husband, Richard Kemball, took
passage the last of April, 1634, in the ship "Elizabeth,"
William Andrews, master, from the port of Ipswich in old
England and settled in Ipswich, New England."
(Waters Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol.
II, p. 1412.)
The will of Henry Kembold (Kemball), of Hechm, dated
January 4, 1558; mentions land in Rattlesden, his wife,
Sysley, sons: Henry, Thomas and Richard; daughters:
Agnes, and Margaret. (Waters Gen. Gl., Vol. II, p. 1412).
The will of Robert Whotlock, of Rattlesden, dated Sep-
tember 20, 1623, proved October 8, 1623; mentions "My
sister Martha Scott, my kinsman — Thomas Scott, my kins-
woman Ursula Kemball, my kinsman — Roger Scott, and
others. Henry Skott, witness."
(Consistory of Norwich, B. Bradstreet. L. 125).
Other Families 553
(1918) HENRY SCOTT 1 , spelled Skott in his will, of
Rattlesden, Suffolk, England, yeoman. Will dated Sept. 24,
1623; m. Martha Whatlock. Children:
i. URSULA Scott 2 m. Richard Kemball, son of
of Henry and Sysley ( ) Kemball.
1919.* ii. THOMAS Scott 2 , m. Elizabeth Kemball, dau.
of Henry and Sysley Kemball.
1920. iii. ROGER Scott 2 , m.
(1919) * THOMAS SCOTT 2 , "of Ipswich," m. Elizabeth
Kemball ; b. about 1594 ; d. will dated March 8, 1654.
Children :
ELIZABETH Scott 3 , m. Spofford.
ABIGAIL Scott 3 , m. Haniel Bosworth.
THOMAS Scott 3 , b. about 1615-20 ; m.
Margaret Hubbard, b. 1615, dau. of William and
Judith (Bloose) Knapp Hubbard.
HANNAH Scott 3 , m. Edward Lockwood.
SARAH Scott 3 .
MARY Scott 3 , m. Thomas Patch.
(1923) THOMAS SCOTT 3 , b. about 1615; m. about
1635, Margaret Hubbard, and d. 1657. She m. 2nd Ezekiel
Rogers, son of Rev. Nathaniel, and d. in 1657, leaving
Children :
1926.* i. THOMAS Scott, Jr. 4 , b. about 1636-7 ; was in
the Indian War under Capt. Lathrop, when he
was killed at Squakeheage, Mass., Sept. 8, 1675.
Children of Ezekiel Rogers and Margaret (Hub-
bard) Widow of Thomas Scott 4 Martha, Na-
thaniel, John, Timothy and Samuel Rogers.
1927.* THOMAS SCOTT 3 received a grant of land dated
Oct. 11, 1681, in the Province of Pennsylvania,
1921.
i.
1922.
ii.
1923.*
iii.
1924.
iv.
1925.
v.
1925.a
vi.
554 SlGGINS AND
and later a patent was signed March, 1715, for
107 acres of "Rent Land" to
1928. SAMUEL SCOTT , (his son) in Bromingham,
Chester County, Pennsylvania. This Samuel
Scott with his wife Jane ( ) we find
with his son
1929.* JOHN SCOTT 7 , proving his importation in the
Valley of Virginia in 1740.
Records from Pennsylvania Archives, 2d. S. Vol. XIX.
"Conveyance of Christopher Sibthorp to George Mannd
containing four hundred ninety-two acres of land, granted
by deed of lease and release, dated the tenth and eleventh
days of October 1681, from William Penn, Chief Proprietor
of the said Province, unto Thomas Scott, and from said
Scott unto me the said Christopher Sibthorp, my heirs and
assigns, &c — page 253.
Christopher Sibthorp, in right of Blake, Powel, Scott,
and Bennet, took up 20 acres which with the first men-
tioned sixteen he by deed dated 6th, 12 Mo., 1698, conveyed
to George Walker. — page 255.
"Signed a patent to Samuel Scott for 107 acres of Rent
Land in Bromingham, in Chester County, first laid out to
Edmond Butcher, date, 3 month 1715 — page 608.
Signed a Warrant to Thomas Dawson for 300 acres near
Conestoego at 10 lbs. p. C't and lsh sterling., date 10th 12
month, 1716.— page 608.
Other Families 555
HUBBARD FAMILY.
WILLIAM HUBBARD of Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng., was
born in 1594, and graduated at Cambridge University, Eng.,
in 1620. He sailed from London in the ship Defence in
1635, "Edmond Bostocke, master," and landed in Boston,
Mass., Oct. 6, 1635, accompanied by his wife (probably his
second wife) Judith (Bloose) Knapp, of Ipswich, Eng., and
six children. The shipping list of passengers of the De-
fence reports him "husbandman" aged 40 years ; Judith,
25 ; Martha, 22 ; Mary, 20 ; John, 15 ; William, 14 ; Nathan-
iel, 6; and Richard, 4 years. Chaucer defined "husband-
man" as "the master of a family." Since his time it has
lost that significance and now means a tiller of the ground.
William Hubbard was undoubtedly a gentleman of easy
circumstances and much landed estate in England, and left
there because of a sense of irritation to his religious views
caused by the unbearable interference and restrictions then
placed upon freedom of worship in the old country. He
bought land of Thomas Dudley, Esq., to whom it had been
granted in Oct. this same year (1635). Mr. Dudley had
erected a house upon it, &c, &c. Among "Old Norfolk
County Deeds" is the following instrument recorded "May
22, 1657, William Hubbard, Senr. of Ipswich New England,
in ye County of Essex, gent., and Judith, his wife, to Captain
Thomas Wiggin, of Quamscooke, in New England" &c. —
(Signed) WILLIAM HUBBARD, Judith Hubbard "Ac-
knowledged May 22, 1657. The 890 acres laid in Whitehall
Swamp in what is now Rochester, N. H., and the 110 acres
in Dover, N. H., which that town granted him prior to
this date. He was made freeman May 2, 1638, and was
Deputy to the General Court for six years, between 1638 and
1646. He removed to Boston in 1662, where he died be-
tween June 8 and Aug. 19, 1670.
Children :
556 SlGGINS AND
i. JOHN Hubbard 2 , m. about 1620.
ii. WILLIAM Hubbard 2 , Rev., b. about 1622-5 ; grad.
H. C. 1642; ord.- 1658, colleague with Rev.
Thomas Corbett of Ipswich ; author of "History
of New England" and other works. He m. 1st,
Margaret Rogers (Rev. Nathl.), who d. in Ip.
Sept. 14, 1704. Children: John 3 , b. 1648, living
1704; Nathaniel 3 , living in 1704. Margaret m.
John Pynchon; probably others.
iii. NATHANIEL Hubbard 2 , b. about 1629 ; living 1670.
iv. RICHARD Hubbard 2 ; Mr., b. abt. 1631 ; grad. H. C.
1652; res. Ipswich Hamlet (now Hamilton);
rep. 1660. He m. Sarah Bradstreet (Gov. Si-
mon) ; d. May 3, 1681 (Ip.) ; adm. est. June 28,
1681. Wid. Sarah, m. bef. 1691 Rev. John Cot-
ton 3 , Rev. John 2 , Rev. John 1 of Yarmouth:
i. RICHARD Hubbard 3 , b. after 1670, "eldest
son in 1691."
ii. NATHANIEL Hubbard 3 , living 1704.
iii. JOHN Hubbard 3 , living 1691.
iv. SIMEON Hubbard 3 , prob. d. bef. 1691.
(1923)* v. MARGARET Hubbard 3 , b. ; m. 1st,
Thomas Scott of Ipswich ; 2d, Ezekiel Rogers.
vi. MARTHA Hubbard 2 , b. ; m. 1st John Whit-
tingham; 2d, Simon Eyre of Boston.
One of the early ancestors of John Scott 7 , whose name is
also said to have been John Scott, was born in Scotland,
went to Ireland where he lost an arm in the Irish Rebellion
and later came to the United States and is said to have set-
tled in Virginia.
"Early in 1740 there was a great influx of population
into the Valley of Virginia. On May 22, 1740, fourteen
Other Families 557
heads of families appeared at Orange Court to 'prove their
importation.' The first order of the series follows ;" (among
them we find Samuel Scott and his wife, Jane and son John.)
(Annals of Augusta Co., Va., by Waddell.)
(1929) JOHN SCOTT 7 , son of Samuel and Jane ( )
Scott, b. 1706, d. Nov. 12, 1774; North Carolina, aged 68
years ; m. March 13, 1740.
MARGARET THORNTON, d. April 6, 1801. John Scott
went to Carolina in 1763. Children:
1930. i. WILLIAM Scott 8 , b. about 1741-5 ; was in the
Revolutionary war ; being in the battle of Kings
Mountain, Oct. 7, 1780.
1931. ii. MARTHA Scott 8 , m. William Frost, their son :
i. STEPHEN Frost 9 , m. Jane F. Walker,
dau. of James and Martha (Gray) Walker;
d. Jan. 30, 1807; and her brother, Alex-
ander Walker, m. Elizabeth Scott, dau. of
Samuel and Martha (McCorkle) Scott.
1932. iii. HANNAH Scott 8 , m. Joseph McCorkle, a
brother of Martha McCorkle.
1933. iv. THOMAS Scott 8 , was also in the Revolution-
ary war, he served as Lieutenant in 1786 under
Col. Logan against the Shawnee Indians — Dur-
ing the Rev. and Indian wars he served in sev-
eral expeditions against the Indians and Tories.
1934.* v. SAMUEL Scott 8 , b. 1762, in North Carolina;
d. Dec. 12, 1820, in Jessamine County, Ken-
tucky, was burried in Middleborough ; m. by the
Rev. Charles Cummings, Aug. 5, 1783, Martha
Elizabeth McCorkle (in Virginia), dau. of John
and Elizabeth (Ruth) McCorkle, she was b. July
12, 1769 ; d. Sept. 17, 1863, in Rushville, Illinois,
at the home of her daughter Jane ("Jennie")
(Scott) Mahan.
558 SlGGINS AND
Samuel Scott was a Revolutionary soldier, being only
sixteen years old when he entered the service as a minute
man in a volunteer company raised to go against Ferguson.
He went to Kentucky with Daniel Boone and his colony
about 1786 and located at Boone's Station, where he resided
seven or eight years.
(From Family Records and Pension Records at
Washington, D. C.)
1935 THOMAS Scott 9 , son of Thomas (No. 1933), was
b. 1801, of Montgomery Co., Indiana.
(1934) SAMUEL SCOTT 8 , b. 1761, in North Carolina;
d. Dec. 12, 1820 ; m. Aug. 5, 1783 :
MARTHA McCORKLE, in Jessamine Co., Ky. ; she was
b. Dec. 12, 1768; and d. Sept. 17, 1863.
Children :
1936.* i. JOHN Scott , m. Abbie Stevenson.
1937.*ii. THOMAS Scott 9 , m. (1) Mary Makimson; m.
(2) Mrs. Davis.
1938.* iii. ELIZABETH Scott , b. April 6, 1788; m.
1803, in Woodford Co., Ky., Alexander Walker;
b. Dec. 15, 1779; son of James and Margaret
(Gray) Walker.
1939.* iv. MARGARET Scott , b. ; m. Thomas
Henry.
1940.* v. JOSEPH Scott , m. Sallie Sutton.
1941. vi. GREZELDA Scott , m. Larkin Davis.
1942.* vii. MARTHA Scott , b. Nov. 7, 1795 ; m. Joseph
Gilmer Walker.
1943.* viii. RUTH Scott , m. Samuel Makimson.
1944.* ix. NANCY Scott , m. Green Fletcher.
1945.* x. JANE Scott , m. Elijah Mahan.
Other Families 559
1946. xi. JAMES Scott", m. Miss Criswell.
1947.* xii. SAMUEL Scott", m. Sallie Duncan.
1948. xiii. MARY ("Polly") Scott", m. Hugh Kelso
Walker.
1949.* xiv. SARAH ANN SCOTT", m. Mathew? Or Mad-
ison Mahan.
1950.* xv. WILLIAM Thornton Scott 9 , b. Apr. 8, 1812;
d. ; m. 1834, Sarah Sellers, in Wood-
ford Co., Ky.
MARTHA McCORKLE SCOTT
On the Fourth day of April, 1851, Martha McCorkle
Scott appeared before the Montgomery County Court of
Indiana and applied for a pension in recognition of the
services of her husband, Samuel Scott, who was a private
under Colonel Campbell and Capt. Dasey — Gen. Greene's
Division. He enlisted in 1778 and served until the close of
the war — was at the Battle of King's Mountain with his
brothers Thomas and William.
She was married to Samuel Scott, in the Wolf Hill meet-
ing house five miles below Abingdon, in Virginia, by Rev.
Charles Cummings, notice of same being given three weeks
in advance. They moved to Woodford Co., Kentucky, in
1784, taking with them Samuel Scott's mother, who was
then a widow. Martha speaks of her husband being en-
listed and subject to call at the time they were married.
The above was sworn to by Martha Scott before I. Naylor,
Presiding Judge and James W. Lynn, Clerk of Montgom-
ery County Court House.
Thomas Scott, son of Samuel's brother, Thomas, made
application for pension, the application was signed by
James Carothers and Mrs. Frost and the leaf from the
Bible which gives dates of marriage of John Scott and
560 SlGGINS AND
Margaret Thornton, death of Margaret Scott and marriage
of Samuel Scott and Martha McCorkle, is preserved in the
pension office at Washington, D. C, together with a copy of
Martha Scott's deposition.
On April 11th, 1851, Elijah Mahan appeared before Jus-
tice of the Peace, George Appleget of Montgomery County,
and testified that he had known Samuel Scott and wife.
Martha McCorkle, for many years ; also that he personally
knew it to be the fact that Samuel Scott served in the
Revolutionary War from the time he was sixteen years old
in 1778 until its close; that said Samuel was called out
against the Indians and Tories many times after he and
Martha were married, and that his brother Thomas ob-
tained a pension for his Revolutionary service, in which
Samuel also participated at King's Mountain and other en-
gagements. Rev. Charles Cummings, pastor of Wolf Hill
church attested to the fact that Martha Scott and her son
Samuel were members of his church and that her children
were baptized by him.
Condensed from papers on file at the Government
Pension Office at Washington, D. C, which were ex-
amined in the summer of 1917 and copies made of
same. (E. S. W.)
Martha Scott at one time narrowly escaped being killed
by the Indians. She went to the home of one of her friends
to assist in the preparations for a wedding. Immediately
after she left the house it was surrounded by Indians and
burned to the ground. One of the members of the family,
an old lady, was tied to a horse and carried away. The
young lady who was preparing for her wedding was taken
away by the Indians and tied to a tree for the night. In
some way she made her escape. She said she saw one of
the Indians put on her wedding bonnet and dance around
the burning building.
Other Families 561
DAVIS FAMILY; SPOTTSYLVANIA CO., VIRGINIA.
Transcript from the Davis Family bible of Spotsylvania
County, Va. With declaration of Revolutionary War Ser-
vice of THOMAS DAVIS.
The first date inteligible is 1738; which is belived to be
the date of marriage of the parents whose names are ob-
literated by time. Their children were :
JAMES Davis, b. Mch. 5, 1741.
i. BENJAMIN Davis, b. Jan. 10, 1743.
ii. ELIZABETH Davis, b. Feb. 22, 1745.
v. SNEAD Davis, b. May 16, 1748.
v. WILLIAM Davis, b. Aug. 26, 1750.
vi. MARY Davis, b. May 24, 1753.
vii. FELIX Davis, b. Apr. 27, 1755.
viii. CHARLES Davis, b. Oct. 22, 1758.
ix. THOMAS Davis, b. Nov. 30, 1761.
Thomas Davis married May 1, 1783, Susannah Heath, in
Spts. Co., Va., where she was b. Feb. 26, 1765; their chil-
dren were:
i. ELIZABETH Davis b. Oct. 16, 1784, Spts. Co.,
Va.
ii. MARY Davis, b. Dec. 22, 1786, Spts. Co., Va.
iii. FIELDING Davis, b. May 9, 1789, in Wood-
ford Co., Ky.
iv. LARKIN Davis, b. Sept. 27, 1791 ; m. Grizelda
Scott.
v. THOMAS Davis, b. Feb. 3, 1794; d. Oct. 1794.
562 SlGGINS AND
vi. THOMAS Davis, b. Aug. 26, 1795; d. May,
1817.
vii. WILLIAM Davis, b. Apr. 7, 1798 ; d. Dec. 1798.
viii. JOHN Davis, b. June 9, 1800; d. Aug. 9, 1800.
ix. SUSANNAH Davis, b. Aug. 13, 1801.
x. JAMES Davis, b. Apr. 17, 1804.
xi. DIANNAH Davis, b. June 17, 1806.
xii. BENJAMIN Davis, b. March 1, 1809; d. Sept.
6, 1828.
xiii. SALLIE Stephens, b. Apr. 26, 1811.
The last eleven were all born in Woodford County, Ky.
Declaration of Thomas Davis of Woodford County, Ky.
"I was born in Spottsylvania County, Va., in 1761. I en-
listed April 25, 1779, for 18 months in the war of the Revolu-
tion. I served under Capt. Alexander Parker in Col. Richard
Parker's regiment. I also served for two months as a sub-
alternate for my brother Benjamin in a company of militia
commanded by Capt. William Mills (James Cunningham,
first lieutenant) and marched to Williamsburg where I
served until discharged. The day after my return home I
was drafted, and served two months in the state, I marched
to Yorktown and was present at the surrender of Lord
Cornwallis. My total service was 18 months, for which I
received $60. This declaration is supported by an affidavit
of John McGrady, of Woodford County, who served in the
same regiment with Thomas Davis. Thomas Davis was
pensioned in Woodford County, Ky., Aug. 18, 1818, in the
57th year of his age. (Pub.)
(Gleanings of Virginia Hist, by Boogher. p. 325-
328.)
Larkin Davis, b. Sept. 27, 1791 ; m. Grizelda Scott, b. abt.
1794, dau. of Samuel and Martha (McCorkle) Scott ; grand
dau. of John and Elizabeth (Thornton) Scott.
1951.*
i.
1952.
ii.
1953.
iii.
1954.*
iv.
Other Families 563
Samuel Scott, b. 1762, in North Carolina; d. Dec. 12,
1820; m. Aug. 5, 1782, Martha McCorkle in Jasamine Co.,
Ky. He was a Revolutionary soldier, being only 16 years
when he entered the service as a minute man in a volunteer
regiment to go against Ferguson.
(1936). JOHN SCOTT 9 , son of (Samuel) and Martha
(McCorkle) Scott, b. July 1784; d. 1822-3; m.
Abbie Stevenson. Children:
MARGARET Scott 10 , m. Mr. Raney.
MARTHA Scott 10 , m. James Stephenson, liv-
ing (1896) Paris, Monroe Co., Mo.
CHRISTOPHER C. Scott 10 ,, d. unm.
SALLIE Scott 10 , b. Aug. 3, 1817 ; m. Aug. 14,
1841, William Llewellyn; they emigrated to
Oregon, 1852, crossing the plains.
1955. v. JOHN Scott 10 , b.— ; m. 1st, Almira Llewellyn,
a half sister of William Llewellyn; m. 2d,
name not known to us.
(1951). MARGARET SCOTT 10 , m. Mr. Raney. Chil-
dren.
1956. i. SAMUEL Raney 11 , living (1896), Spring-
water, Oregon.
1957. ii. WILLIAM Raney 11 .
1958. iii. JOSEPH Raney 11 .
1959. iv. JAMES Raney 11 .
1960. v. THOMAS Raney 11 .
1961. vi. GEORGE Raney 11 .
1962. vii. ISABELL Raney 11 .
(1954). SALLIE SCOTT 10 , b. Aug. 3, 1817; m. Aug. 14,
1841, William Llewellyn. Children:
564 SlGGINS AND
1963. i. JOHN Llewellyn", b. Feb. 23, 1848; m. Sarah
Howell. They had three children.
1964. ii. WILLIAM Llewellyn 11 , b. Oct. 16, 1853; m.
Jane Currin and had 3 ch.
1965. iii. ALFRED Llewellyn", b. Dec. 18, 1856; m.
Emily Finley. They had 3 ch.
1966. iv. CLEMANTINE Llewellyn", b. Nov. 10, 1858;
m. William Cornet.
All of the children of William and Sallie (Scott) Llewel-
lyn live in Clackamas County, Oregon. Their Post Office
address is Springwater, Oregon.
(1937). THOMAS SCOTP, son of Samuel and Martha
(McCorkle) Scott, b. Aug. 22, 1786; m. Mary Makimson, sis-
ter of Samuel Makimson; m. 2d, Mrs. Davis. Children of
1st m.
1967. i. MARY Ann Scott 10 , m. Mr. Pearcy, and moved
to St. Joseph, Mo., at an early day.
1968. ii. JANE Scott 10 , m. Mr. Pearcy, bro. of the
above; moved to St. Joseph, Mo., at an early
day.
1969. iii. JOHN Scott 10 , dead.
1970. iv. CYRUS Scott 10 , m. a dau. of James Scott, in
1851 ; they were living in Audrain Co., Mo.
1971. v. THOMAS Scott 10 , m. in Indiana.
(1938). ELIZABETH SCOTT 9 , Samuel 8 , John 7 , Sam-
uel 3 , Thomas 5 , Thomas, Jr. 4 , Thomas', Thomas-, Henry 1 , b.
April 6 1788, in Woodford County, Ky. ; m. 1803 :
ALEXANDER WALKER, b. Dec. 15, 1779 ; son of James
and Margaret (Gray) Walker; grandson of Alexander and
Jane (Hummer) Walker; gr. grandson of John and Cather-
ine (Rutherford) Walker; gr. gr. grandson of John and
Jane (McKnight) Walker.
ELIZABETH SCOTT WALKER.
i L938)
Other Families 565
Alexander Walker, was raised in Woodford County, Ky.,
as was also his wife Elizabeth Scott; soon after their mar-
riage moved to Adair County, Ky., where they owned a
farm of 300 acres and raised a great deal of tobacco.
Elizabeth (Scott) Walker, was the third child of Samuel
and Martha (McCorkle) Scott, who were married and lived
in Virginia; they moved to Kentucky in August 1796, en-
countering many privations on the way. At one time they
were attacked by the Indians and several of their party
were killed ; Mrs. McClure was traveling with them and her
young children were slain ; one young girl was tomahawked,
scalped and left for dead, but Martha Scott found and cared
for her, insisting on carrying her back to the Fort, where
she eventually recovered.
The children of Alexander and Elizabeth (Scott) Walker
were:
1972. i. JAMES Walker 10 , b. December 13, 1804; d.
from lockjaw Feb. 1, 1829, in Illinois; m. about
1828, Mary Nelson.
1973.* ii. SAMUEL Scott Walker 10 , b. Jan. 30, 1807; d.
Jan 22, 1892, in Florida ; m. Jan. 24, 1832, Sarah
Ann Allen, b. Oct. 25, 1810— d. Nov. 1882, Cow-
ley Co., Kans.
1974. iii. EDMOND Walker 10 , b. Dec. 28, 1811 ; m. Mary
Ann Shirley, 9 children.
1975. iv. HARRISON Perry Walker 10 , b. March 1,
1814; never married; served in the 13th Ken-
tucky Reg. U. S. A. ; a farmer and blacksmith ;
d. July 11, 1879.
1976. v. GREENVILLE Walker 10 , b. Dec. 22, 1815; m.
Sarah Ann Lansdale; lived and died at West
Point, Ky. ; killed by falling from a tree. Had
several children.
1977. vi. LOUIS F. Walker 10 , m. Elizabeth F. Nelson.
Had eight children.
—37
566 SlGGINS AND
1978.* vii. MARGARET Ann Walker 1 ", m. Alexander
Hindman. Had eight children.
1979. viii ELZY Creel Walker 1 ", b. Oct. 12, 1822; d. Aug.
28, 1854; served in the Mexican War.
1980. ix. MARTHA Jane Walker 1 ", m. John W. Shirley.
Had six children.
1981. x. ELIZABETH M. Walker 1 ", m. Noah Wilcox.
Had six children.
1982. xi. POLLY Walker 1 ", b. Aug. 20, 1831 ; m. Joseph
M. Craig, in Adair County, Ky.; d. March 22,
1855. Had one child who died young.
(1973) SAMUEL SCOTT WALKER 10 , son of Alexander
and Elizabeth (Scott) Walker b. Jan. 30, 1807, in Adair
County, Ky. on Jan. 24, 1832, he m. Sarah Ann Allen, near
Columbia, Adair Co., Ky. She was the only daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Tilford) Allen. William Allen was
son of Malcum Allen who lived in Botetourt County, Va.
His other sons were, James, John, and Moses, all except
Moses lived and died in Adair County, Ky. William Allen
served in the war of 1812, and died of yellow fever in New
Orleans (or Memphis). Sarah Ann (Allen) Walker was
born and raised in Adair Co., Ky. She was a member of
the Presbyterian Church, and a very strict temperance
woman. She d. in Nov., 1882, in Cowley Co., Kans., at the
home of her son Cyrus.
Samuel Scott Walker' served as sheriff four years in
Fairfield, Jefferson Co., la. He also served as postmaster in
Columbia, Marion Co., la., for two years. A number of
years after his going out of office, the government officials
at Washington in checking up his accounts, found that
there was $30 to his credit. This had been accumulating
during the twenty years of his postmastership, as in mak-
ing his returns to the government, he always preferred to
give them the advantage, and favored them, rather than
turn out a defaulter, never thinking that the amount thus
Other Families 567
overpaid, would be returned to him. His honesty and in-
tegrity was manifested in all his dealings with his fellow-
men. He resigned in favor of William Oiler. He made two
trips to the Rocky Mountains in company with his son-in-
law B. B. Siggins.
When Samuel Scott Walker removed to Jefferson Co., la.,
it was a wilderness occupied only by Indians. His farm oc-
cupied the place where Glasgow now stands. In 1840 Gov-
ernor Dodge appointed him Colonel of the State Militia and
by that title, he was known ever afterwards.
He removed to Kansas in 1880, and lived there until he
went to Florida in the fall of 1890, where he died Jan. 22,
1892, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Melissa Smith.
Children :
* i. ELIZABETH Erma Walker 11 , b. Feb. 20, 1833;
d. Sept. 29, 1864; m. Feb. 24, 1856;
B. B. Siggins, b. July 27, 1827 in Youngsville, Pa. ;
d. June 14, 1903, in Youngsville, Pa.; He m. (2),
Druzilla E. Belnap, dau. of Philo G. and Eliza-
beth (Mead) Belnap.
1983. ii. MARY Adeline Walker", b. in Adair Co., Ky.
Sept. 28, 1834; m . Dec. 25, 1857,
James Hardin, b. June 19, 1837. 8 children.
1984. iii. CYRUS Allen Walker", b. Sept. 22, 1836: m.
Jan. 8, 1872;
Leah Augusta Young, dau. of Major J. B. Young;
4 children.
1985. iv. FETNEY Ann Walker 11 , b. June 14, 1838; d.
Jan. 1847.
1986. v. LUCIAN Alford Walker 11 , b. Aug. 8, 1840; d.
May 23, 1841, of croup.
1987. vi. LOUISA America Walker 11 , b. Mch. 18, 1842;
m. April 27, 1862 ;
Enos Reed; 10 children.
568 SlGGINS AND
1988. vii. JAMES Franklin Walker 11 , b. Dec. 17, 1843;
m. Mch. 21, 1876;
Evelyn Wyland; 4 children.
1989. viii. QUINTILLA Walker 11 , b. Oct. 4, 1845; m.
1875; George Walker, son of Edmond Walker.
1990. ix. ROSELLA Melissa Walker 11 , b. June 2, 1847;
d. July 13, 1900, in Wauchula, Fla ; m. 1867,
George Smith ; six children.
1991. x. IRA Cassius Walker 11 , b. June 14, 1849; in
Iowa; m. July 31, 1889
Emily Acres (dau. of William Acres) ; 3 children.
♦ELIZABETH ERMA WALKER 11 , b. Feb. 20, 1833; d.
Sept. 29, 1864; m. Feb. 24, 1856; B. B. SlGGINS, b. July
27, 1827; d. June 14, 1903; in Youngsville, Pa. He m. (2),
Druzilla Bellnap. Children of (1) m.:
i. EMMA Siggins 12 , b. Feb. 6, 1857; m. Dec. 6, 1882;
John Barber White, b. Dec. 8, 1847; in Ellery
Township, N. Y.; m. for his first wife Arabell
Bowen; he was son of John and Rebecca (Bar-
ber) White; for further records see Siggins
Family.
ii. LAURA Siggins 12 , b. Aug. 15, 1859, in Chariton,
la; m. Sept. 19, 1883;
James O. Messerly; 3 children.
iii. CLINTON C. Siggins 12 , b. Dec. 31, 1862; in Colo-
rado; m. Apr. 20, 1890,
Nellie Cunningham.
Children of (2) m.:
iv. ALBERT B. Siggins, b. 1866 in Philadelphia; d.
same year.
v. LIDA B. Siggins, b. Feb. 3, 1867, in Philadelphia;
m. 1886;
George H. Hyatt, of Whitehall, N. Y. She d. June
29, 1887, in Colby, Kansas.
Other Families 569
The last two children are not descendants of John Scott
as the line comes through the first wife of B. B. Siggins.
EMMA (SIGGINS) WHITE 12 , b. Feb. 6, 1857, in Chari-
ton, Iowa; m. Dec. 8, 1882; J. B. White, b. Dec. 8, 1847;
in Ellery Township, N. Y. (near Jamestown) .
Children :
i. EMMA Ruth White.
ii. JAY Barber Walker White; d. young.
iii. RAYMOND Baird White.
570 SlGGINS AND
D. A. R. RECORD.
Mrs. Emma Siggins White, No. 13513.
Born in Iowa
Wife of John Barber White.
Descendant of Samuel Scott, of North Carolina.
Daughter of Benjamin Baird Siggins and Elizabeth Erma
Walker, his wife.
Granddaughter of
Samuel Scott Walker and Sarah Allen, his wife ;
Gr-granddaughter of Alexander Walker and Elizabeth
Scott, his wife;
Gr-gr-granddaughter of Samuel Scott and Martha McCor-
kle, his wife;
Samuel Scott (1762-1820), was a minute man at the battle
of King's Mountain under Col. William Campbell. His
brothers, William and Thomas, served in the militia.
He was born 1762, in North Carolina, died in Kentucky,
1820.
(Vol. XIV, p. 192, D. A. R. Lineage Book.)
(1939) MARGARET SCOTT 5 ', dau. of Samuel and Mar-
tha (McCorkle) Scott, b. Oct. 8, 1790; Jessamine Co., Ky.;
d. Mar. 20, 1870, Brownsville, Oregon; m. Dec. 19 1809;,
Thomas Henry in Jessamine Co., Ky. They moved to Il-
linois in 1818; to Indiana in 1824 and to Oregon in 1852,
crossing the plains with ox teams. Their Indiana home was
in the southern part of Rush county about three miles N.
W. of Spring Hill, the location of their church was known
as "New Zion." Thomas Henry died at Brownsville, Ore-
Other Families 571
gon, Sept. 6, 1865. He was a son of Samuel Henry, who
fought in the battle of Brandywine, in 1777. They came
from Southwest Pennsylvania. Children:
1992.* i. MARTHA Henry 10 , m., (1),
James Richardson; m. (2),
Jacob Hooton.
1993. ii. NANCY Simpson Henry 10 ; m.
William Patton.
1994. iii. BETSY Martin Henry 10 ; m.,
Robert H. Crawford.
1995. iv. MARGARET Jane Henry 10 ; m. (1),
James Downie ; m. (2),
Samuel Willson.
1996. v. MARY Ann Henry 10 ; m.
James Foster..
1997. vi. SAMUEL Henry 10 ; m.
Jane Williams.
1998. vii. MILDRED Grizelle Henry 10 ; m.
William H. Mahan.
1999. viii. THOMAS Duncan Henry 10 ; m. (1),
Mary B. McClintock; m. (2),
Rebecca J. Meeks.
2000. ix. JAMES Worth Henry 10 ; d. young.
2001. x. MATILDA Henry 10 ; d. young.
(1992) Martha Henry 10 , b. March 8, 1811; m. Sept. 8,
1829; James Richardson, b. Nov. 7, 1830; d. Apr. 23, 1838.
Children :
2002. i. WILLIAM Richardson 11 , b. Dec. 29, 1833; d.
Dec. 30, 1834.
2003. ii. MARGARET J. Richardson 11 , b. May 16, 1836;
m. Sept. 29, 1853,
572 SlGGINS AND
William Edward Waits, b. Aug. 22, 1835 ; and had
a dau.
2004. i. MARTHA A. Waits 12 , b. July 9, 1855,
who m. Sept. 3, 1876;
Geo. W. Kelly; no. ch.
(1940) JOSEPH SCOTT 9 , b. February 12, 1792; was in
the War of 1812 ; married Sallie Sutton, she was living in
1882. Children:
2005. i. MARY Scott 10 , m. 1st.,
Chapman Piketon; m. 2d.,
Augustus Molesworth.
2006. ii. ALEXANDER Scott 10 , not m.; was a soldier
in the civil war.
2007. iii. JAMES Scott 10 , m.
Miss Lucas, and went to Iowa.
(1942) MARTHA ("PATSY") SCOTT 9 , dau. of Samuel
and Martha (McCorkle) Scott, b. Nov. 17, 1795; d. Sept.
16, 1826; m. JOSEPH GILMER WALKER b. June 17,
1793 ; he m. (2) Susan Pope Bell, she d. Jan. 7, 1843 ; was
the mother of 8 children. Joseph Gilmer Walker was a
farmer and lawyer and practiced law in Kentucky. He with
his father Alexander, removed from Virginia when Joseph
was an infant. He was an able lawyer, and a man of fine
talent and extensive reading. He married Martha Scott of
Woodford County, Ky. She was the daughter of Samuel
Scott and Martha McCorkle. She died near Columbia, Ky.,
on the waters of Petit's Ford. His wife Martha, and his
mother, Mary Harman Walker, his father Alexander and his
sister-in-law Flora, were all buried in Fletcher's graveyard,
near Russell's Creek, Adair Co., Ky. After the death of his
wife Martha Scott he married Susan Pope Bell. He was elder
of the Presbyterian Church at Shilo, McDonough Co., 111. He
fought in the war of 1812. His daughter Ann G. Randolph,
says that she, with other children, received a patent of land
in Nebraska as a pension for her father's service in the War
of 1812. Their children were :
2012.
v.
2013.
vi.
2014.
vii.
Other Families 573
2008. i. PINCKNEY Houston Walker 10 , nine children.
2009.* ii. LOUISA CAROLINE WALKER 1 '; nine child-
ren.
2010. iii. MARGARET Walker 10 ; d. young, in Adair
Co., Ky.
2011. iv. ALEXANDER Walker 10 ; d. young in Adair
Co., Ky.
MAGD ALINE Walker 10 ; d. young.
FLORA Walker 10 ; d. young.
MARTHA Gaither Walker 10 ; never m.; d. in
McDonough Co., 111., Sept. 1838 ; bur. at Walnut
Grove.
2015. viii. LUCETTIE Ann Walker 10 ; m.,
James Broadus; no issue.
2016. ix. KATHERINE WALKER 10 ; m.
William Lewis Early; eleven children.
2017. x. CYNTHIA WALKER 10 ; m.
Dr. James M. Randolph; one child, who d. young.
2018. vii. ELLEN Walker 10 , b. ; d. Aug. 12, 1898,
in Brookfield, Mo.; m.
Charles Allen Gilchrist, b. Feb. 13, 1834, in Vt.
He was Lieutenant Genl., Spanish American
War. 8 children.
2019. xiii. MARY Jane Walker 10 ; d. when grown at
Walnut Grove. 111.
2020. xiv. SUSAN Flora Walker 10 ; b. June 2, 1837; d.
July, 1898; m. 1858,
John Scott, son of John and Rachel (Randolph)
Scott. Rachel Randolph was a sister of Na-
thaniel Randolph, whose son, James, m. (1)
Cynthia and (2) her sister Ann G. Walker.
Several children; two living in 1900:
574 SlGGINS AND
2021. i. ANNETTA Percy Scott", twin.
2022. ii. LUCETTA Percy Scott 11 , twin.
2023. xv. SAMUEL Percy Walker 10 ; never m.
2024. xvi. ANN Gilmer Walker 10 , b. Aug. 2, 1841; m.
Sept. 25, 1866,
Dr. James M. F. Randolph, husband of her sister,
Cynthia. He was b. Aug. 26, 1818; in Gettys-
burg, Pa., son of Nathaniel and Ann Eliza (Big-
ham) Randolph. The name being until about
three generations ago Fitz Randolph, when the
Fitz was dropped from the name. Dr. Ran-
dolph, died Apr. 14, 1876. After her mother's
death Ann Walker lived several years with her
mother's sister, Mrs. Rice Maxey (Lucy Pope
Bell) of Ky. Her home is at Milwaukee, Wis-
consin. They had 4 children. For further rec-
ords of the descendants of Alexander Gilmer
Walker, see "John Walker of Wigton, Scotland"
by E. S. White.
(1943) RUTH SCOTT", dau. of Samuel and Martha
(McCorkle) Scott; b. Nov. 8, 1797; m. Nov. 18, 1818;
Samuel Makimson, in Kentucky. Children:
2025. i. ELIZABETH M. Makimson 10 , b. May 31, 1820;
d. young.
2026. ii. Makimson 10 ; d. young.
2027. iii. MARTHA Jane Makimson 10 , b. Oct. 31, 1824;
m. Warren Darnell ; she d. 1854, leaving one son,
1. MILTON Thornton Darnell, a hardware
Merchant in Danville, Ind.
2028. iv: JAMES Makimson 10 , b. Dec. 12, 1826; d.
young.
2029.* v. MARY Ann Makimson 10 , b. Nov. 7, 1828; d.
1858; m. John T. Hillis.
Other Families 575
2031.* vii. THOMAS Thornton Makimson 10 , b. Feb. 9,
1835; d. Dec. 1898; m.
Miss Findley of Pennsylvania.
2032. viii. AMANDA Ruth Makimson 1 ", b. Dec. 7, 1838;
d. 1866; m. 1860,
Alexander Rankin, he m. (2) and is living in Kan-
sas City, Mo. They had one son,
ERNEST Rankin 11 , druggist of Colorado
Springs.
(2031). Thomas Thornton Makimson 10 , b. Feb. 9, 1835;
d. Dec. 1898; m. Miss Findley, lived in Kansas City, Kans.,
where he came in 1892. He was formerly a member of the
Presbyterian church, but joined the Congregational church
in Kansas City, Kans., and became an active worker in the
church. He was superintendent in the Sabbath School, and
at one time was a teacher in the day schools. He was in
the Civil War. Children:
2033. i. FRANK Makimson 11 ; m. had
i. LISTAH Makimson 12 , b. 1887.
2034. ii. LUCY Makimson 11 ; m.
William Rupard.
2035. iii. PEARL Makimson 11 ; m.
J. Newton Johnson, they had:
i. RUTH Johnson 12 , b. June, 1895.
(2029) Mary Ann Makimson 10 , b. Nov. 7, 1828 ; d. 1858 ;
m. John T. Hillis. Children :
2036. i. THEOPHILUS Hillis 11 ; was in the Civil War;
d. in the service.
2037. ii. MILTON Hillis 11 ; also entered the army and
died while in the service.
2038. iii. FANNIE Hillis 11 ; m., living in Montana.
576 SlGGINS AND
(1944) NANCY SCOTT 9 , dau. of Samuel and Martha
(McCorkle) Scott; b. Jan. 15, 1800; d. 1894; m.
Green Fletcher.
Children:
2039. i. LARKIN Fletcher 10 , m. Miss Barnes.
2040. ii. JAMES Fletcher 10 , m. Nancy .
2041. iii. WOODSON Green Fletcher 10 , m.
2042. iv. COLUMBUS Fletcher 10 , m. Martha Young,
she d. 1890; he d. while returning from his
wife's funeral. Martha Young was a sister
of Augusta ("Gussie") Walker, wife of Cyrus
Walker. They were the parents of nine
Children :
2043.
JEFFERSON Fletcher
2044.
ii.
NORA Fletcher 11 .
2045.
iii.
LYNN Fletcher 11 .
2046.
iv.
NELLIE Fletcher 11 .
2047.
v.
MARY Fletcher 11 .
2048.
vi.
AUGUSTA Fletcher 11 .
2049.
vii.
GEORGE Fletcher 11 .
2050.
viii.
CLINTON Fletcher 11 .
2051.
ix.
GEORGINA Fletcher 11 .
(1945) JANE SCOTT 9 , dau. of Samuel and Martha
(McCorkle) Scott; b. Nov. 3, 1810; m. Elijah Mahan.
Children :
2052. i. WILLIAM Mahan 10 , m. Miranda Grizelle
Henry; they moved to Oregon with the Henrys
in 1852. For their descendants see Miranda
Grizelle Henry.
Other Families 577
(1946) James Scott 9 , son of Samuel and Martha (Mc-
Corkle) Scott, b. May 20, 1803; m. Miss Chiswell.
(1947) SAMUEL SCOTT 9 , son of Samuel and Martha
(McCorkle) Scott, was b. Nov. 23, 1804, in Jessamine Co.,
Kentucky, about fifteen miles from Lexington ; d. at Boons
Station, 1886.
"At eighteen years of age he went to Versailes as an ap-
prentice to learn the hatters' trade, after three years he
traveled and worked at the trade in Nashville and Gains-
borough, Tenn., and finally settled in Glasgow, Kentucky.
He married in July, 1828, Sarah Wood Duncan, of Glasgow,
who came from Culpepper Co., Va., with her parents in
1814 ; she died when her daughter Louisa was very young.
Samuel Scott was one of the old land marks ; his daughter
Louisa kept house for him many years at the old homestead
in Glasgow."
Children :
2053. i. MARTHA F. Scott 10 , b. July 6, 1829.
2054.* ii. HON. JOHN Scott 10 , b. May 6, 1831; m. Ellen
Jones, a teacher. He was one of the leading
Democrats in the State of Indiana, and Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of that state.f
LOUISA J. Scott 10 , b. Jan. 22, 1835; after her
father's death lived with her brother in Grady-
ville, Adair Co.
JAMES A. Scott 10 , b. July 9, 1839.
WILLIAM H. Scott 10 , b. Sept. 1, 1842.
THOMAS J. Scott 10 , b. Oct. 17, 1845.
SARAH E. Scott 10 , b. Sept. 19, 1849.
(2054) HON. JOHN T. SCOTT, b. May 6, 1831 ; m. Ellen
Jones. Children :
2060. i. SALLIE Scott 11 , a teacher in Terre Haute, Ind.
2055.
iii.
2056.
iv.
2057.
v.
2058.
vi.
2059.
vii.
578 SlGGINS AND
2061. ii. EUGENIA Scott' 1 ,.
2062. iii. GEORGE Addison Scott 11 ,.
2063. iv. CHARLES Scott 11 .
2064. v. ANNA Gertrude Scott 11 , a teacher.
fRef . History of Indiana, pp. 245-685, where may be found
his portrait.
(1948) MARY ("POLLY") SCOTT 9 , dau. of Samuel
and Martha (McCorkle) Scott; b. May 1, 1807; d. Oct. 6,
1841 ; m. Mch. 7, 1826, Hugh Kelso Walker, b. Nov. 7, 1799 ;
he m. (2) Dec. 8, 1842, Mary Workman, she d. Apr. 30,
1845. He m. (3) Jan. 13, 1846, Cynthia Blakeman, b. Sept.
9, 1810; d. Sept. 4, 1877.
Children:
2065. i. MARTHA ("Patsy") Ann Walker 10 , b. Jan. 6,
1827; d. March 13, 1830, in Adair Co., Ky.
2066. ii. JOSEPH Norman Walker 10 , b. Aug. 22, 1828 ;
m. Elizabeth Onstatt Nov. 18, 1869; four chil-
dren.
2067. iii. SAMUEL Theophilus Walker 10 , b. Jan. 30.
1830; m. Julia Foskett; five children.
2068. iv. JOHN ("Jack") Walker 1 ", b. Nov. 1, 1831 ; d.
May 24, 1860.
2069. v. ELIZABETH Walker 10 , b. Oct. 1, 1833; m.
John Nathan Murrel, one child.
2070. vi. SOPHIA Jane Walker 10 , b. Dec. 10, 1835; d.
Jan. 20, 1838.
2071. vii. HENRY Clay Walker 10 , b. April 9, 1838; m.
Oct. 5, 1865, Harriet Dohoney.
(1949) SARAH ANN SCOTT", dau. of Samuel and
Martha (McCorkle) Scott, b. Sept. 3, 1809; m. Matthew
Mahan at Knobnoster, Mo. He died Dec. 18, 1895.
Children :
WILLIAM THORNTON SCOTT,
i L950)
Other Families 579
2072. i. MARY Mahan 10 , m. Mr. Young, of Knobnoster,
Mo.; have i dau. Nannie Young.
2073. ii. SAMUEL T. Mahan 10 , lives at Lamont, Mo.
2074. iii. JOHN Mahan 10 , lives at Knobnoster, Mo.
(1950) WILLIAM THORNTON SCOTT 9 , son of Sam-
uel and Martha (McCorkle) Scott; was born April 3, 1812.
His mother, Martha (McCorkle) Scott, was a sister of
Joseph McCorkle. The father died when he was but eight
years old, but the mother lived to be ninety-five. Many
times she related to this her youngest child the stories of
the trials and privations of her early life when her parents
came as pioneers to Kentucky, and their narrow escape
from the Indians at Boon Station. She also told him of his
father's going with the volunteer forces raised to march
against Ferguson in North Carolina. There is no record
of Samuel Scotts' service in this battle, but William Thorn-
ton Scott, who lived to be eighty-three years and ten months
old (died Feb., 1896), left a written statement of the facts
in the case, and upon this statement several descendants
of Samuel Scott have joined the Revolutionary Society of
this country. William T. Scott was a member of one of
these and was invited by the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion to attend their meeting in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 7, 1895.
This meeting was held on North Carolina day of the At-
lanta Exposition. There were many patriotic speeches,
one by W. T. Scott, the only surviving son of the nine hun-
dred patriots of that battle. When the civil war broke out
he, being too old to go himself, sent three sons to fight for
the Union. After the close of the war the family moved
to Holton, Kansas. His daughter, Mrs. Martha A. Hand,
served several years as State Regent for the Daughters of
the Revolution in Kansas. She joined this society in recog-
nition of her grandfather, Samuel Scott's service at King's
Mountain. W. T. Scott was a member of the Presbyterian
Church, serving as ruling elder for over fifty years. He
attended three General Assemblies as delegate, an honor
conferred on few elders. It was my good fortune to see
580 SlGGINS AND
and know this good man. He was an unusually good con-
versationalist, and being possessed of a remarkable mem-
ory, could relate many interesting and amusing incidents
relating to early history of the family. He told of attend-
ing the wedding of Samuel Scott Walker (my grandfather)
and Sarah Allen ; "Scott Walker," as he was called, being a
nephew of T. W. Scott's. He also mentioned the fact that
his father's family of fifteen children were never at home
at one time, some of the older ones being married and liv-
ing in homes of their own before he, the youngest one,
was born. (E. S. W.)
Other Families 581
SELLERS FAMILY.
2075. Joseph Sellers, b. December 16, 1776; d. April 21,
1842; m. about 1801-2, Mary Johnson, b. Jan-
uary 3, 1782 ; d. February 16, 1834. Children :
2076. i. LOVISA Sellers, b. December 2, 1803 ; d. May
1, 1839.
2077. ii. ELIZA Sellers, b. January 25, 1805; d. Oct.
9, 1877.
2078. iii. AMANDA Sellers, b. May 8, 1808 ; d. Jan. 31,
1815.
2079. iv. THOMAS J. Sellers, b. August 19, 1810; d.
May 23, 1887.
2080. v. JOHN Newton Sellers, b. January 28, 1813 ; d.
1858, father of Col. Sanford Sellers.
2081.* vi. SARAH Ann Sellers, b. January 3, 1816; d.
Aug. 26, 1885 ; m. William Thornton Scott (No.
1950).
2082. vii. MARY Jane Sellers, b. January 15, 1819; d.
Dec. 5, 1879.
2083. viii. JOSEPH Hamilton Sellers, b. May. 10, 1822 ;
d. Dec. 22, 1883.
From the Sellers Family Bible, now in possession of Mrs.
Elizabeth Darnell, of Oklahoma City, Okla.)
(1950) WILLIAM THORNTON SCOTT', b. April 8,
1812, in Jessamine Co., Ky. ; d. February 10, 1896, in Hol-
ton, Kansas ; m. 1834, in Versailles, Ky.
(2081) Sarah Ann Sellers, b. January 3, 1816; d. Aug-
582
SlGGINS AND
ust 26, 1885. They removed in 1836 to Putman Co.
and in 1870, to Holton, Kansas, and died there.
Children :
Ind.
2084.
2085.
2086.
2087.
2088.
2089.
2090.
2091.
2092.
2093.
2094.
CAPT JOSEPH Addison Scott 10 , 18th Bat-
tery, Ind. Lt. Artillery; b. August 3, 1837; m.
1st, at Richmond, Ind.,
Emma J. Crocker, they had two children, both d.
in infancy; m. 2nd. 1871, at Indianapolis, Ind.
Martha S. Stewart. Children:
i. FLORENCE Stewart Scott 11 , b. Sept. 21,
1872, at Holton, Kansas; m.
Henry W. Dowling, of Indianapolis, Ind.
Children :
. ALEXANDER Scott Dowling 12 , b. Sep-
tember 20, 1903.
i. ADDISON McCabe Dowling 12 , b. Aug.
1, 1905.
ii. CORNELIA Stewart Dowling 12 , b. No-
vember 1, 1908.
MAYMIE A. Scott 11 , b. February 10, 1875,
at Holton, Kansas; m.
Donald R. McLeod. Children:
SCOTT Roydon Macleod 1
1894, at San Diego.
DONALD F. Macleod 12 ,
1897, at Holton, Kan.
; , b. May 26,
b. Apr. 15,
in
EDITH Thornton Scott 11 , b. March 7,
1878, at Holton, Kansas; m.
Dr. William Burett Kitchen, of Indianapolis,
Ind. Children :
i. JOHN M. Kitchen' 2 , b. April 15, 1912.
MARY HAMILTON SCOTT"*, b. July 12, 1840,
at New Maysville, Ind.; d. August 16, 1916, at
Other Families 583
Holton, Kansas; m. Sept. 18, 1866, at Bain-
bridge, Ind.
CAPT. MOSES MILTON BECK, b. November 22,
1838, in Wayne Co., Ind. ; d. August 16, 1906, in
Holton, Kansas. His first vote was cast for
Abraham Lincoln; he enlisted in the 16th In-
diana Reg. Civil War, and on being mustered
out a year later, organized the 18th Indiana
Battery, in which he served until the end of the
war, part of his detachment aided in the capture
of Jefferson Davis and his party, and he emerg-
ed from the Georgia woods to learn that peace
had been declared three weeks before.
In the spring of 1869 he removed to Holton,
Kansas, a town at that time of less than three
hundred people and no railroads. He was ap-
pointed postmaster in 1871 and held the office
seventeen years.
He took an active interest in the history of
Eastern Kansas, and as owner and editor of the
Holton Recorder, won and held the respect of
all who had the good fortune to know him; he
published many newspaper articles under the
non-de-plume of "Adam Croaker."
Children :
2095. i. EDWIN Beck 11 , b. Bainbridge, Ind., June
9, 1867; d. August 15th, 1868.
2096.* ii. EDWARD Scott Beck 11 , b. Brainbridge,
Ind., December 12, 1868.
2097. iii. MARTHA Milton Beck 11 , b. Holton, Kan-
sas, August 8, 1870.
2098. iv. WILLIAM Thornton Beck 11 , b. Holton,
Kansas, February 14, 1873 ; married Aug.
29, 1906, Mabel McLaughlin, b. December
17, 1879. Children:
584 SlGGINS AND
2099. i. THOMAS Milton Beck 12 , b. July 1,
1907.
2100. ii. WILLIAM Thornton Beck, Jr. 12 , b.
July 28, 1910.
2101. v. CLARA Mary Beck", b. Holton, Kansas,
August 19, 1876 ; married Nov. 2, 1899 :
John D. Myers, b. Circleville, Kansas, Jan-
uary 21, 1871, now living in Kansas City,
Missouri. Children :
2102 i. CATHERINE Mary Myers 12 , b. July
1, 1900.
2103. ii. JOHN EDWARD Myers 12 , b. April
14, 1906.
2104. vi. LILLIAN Sarah Beck 11 , b. Holton, Kan-
sas, October 31, 1883 ; married June 1, 1911
Edwin Lee Holton, b. Scott Co., Ind., Decem-
ber 15, 1877. Children:
2105. i. MARY HOLTON 12 , b. January 28,
1913, at Holton, Kansas.
(2096) EDWARD SCOTT BECK 11 , eldest son of Capt.
M. M. and Mary Hamilton (Scott) Beck; b. December 12,
1868, at Bainbridge, Indiana. Is a graduate of the Mich-
igan University, at Ann Arbor. In 1899 was city editor and
in 1914 became managing editor of the Chicago Tribune;
m. September 12, 1896 :
Cora Francis Reilly, daughter of Dr. Francis Reilly, one
of the most prominent and successful physicians of Chi-
cago, and his wife, Alice Kennicott, whose grandfather
Kennicott, came to Chicago when it was a small hamlet
scattered over the low marshy ground at the mouth of the
Chicago River. Mrs. Beck was an only daughter and as
she grew up developed a taste for literature and a desire
for education, every opportunity was given her to gratify
these tastes, after graduating from the splendid schools of
Other Families 585
Chicago she took a four year literature course at the Mich-
igan University, graduating with credit and honor in 1895 ;
she died October 12, 1899, and is buried in Arlington Cem-
etery, a lovely country burying ground where the dust of
five generations of the Kennicott family repose.
They had one child:
2106. THOMAS Reilly Beck 1 -, b. Sept. 29, 1899 ; d.
Oct. 5, 1899.
(2096) Edward Scott Beck, married second: August 23,
1911, Grace Redfield, who was also a granddaughter of
the first Kennicott settler in Chicago, she had been a teacher
in the Chicago public schools for several years.
2107. iii. SAMUEL HOWARD Scott 10 , was a soldier in
the civil war ; b. October 6, 1842, in Bainbridge,
Ind. ; m. in Holton, Kansas :
Louise B. Jones. Children:
2108. i. FRANK A. Scott 11 , b. in Holton, Kansas,
June 15, 1871, d. young.
2109. ii. JESSE Scott 11 , b. September 29, 1877;
married Jay Ellis, of Topeka, Kan.
Children :
2110. i. Louise Scott Ellis ^, b. September 29,
1914.
2111. iii. MABEL Scott 11 , b. in Holton, Kan., Sep-
tember 15, 1880.
2112. iv. ANNIE Scott 11 , b. in Holton, Kan., Oct.
14, 1883 ; d. Mar. 3, 1885.
2113. iv. MARTHA ANN SCOTT 10 , b. August 8, 1845,
in Bainbridge, Ind. ; d. Jan. 1, 1912, in Los An-
geles, Calif. ; m. 1870, in Bainbridge, Ind.
HIRAM H. HAND.
Martha Ann (Scott) Hand, grew to woman-
hood during the civil war and for a number of
years was a teacher in the same schools in which
586 SlGGINS AND
she had received her education ; in 1870 she came
to Kansas, living for a time in Ottawa where
her husband was engaged in newspaper work;
she was a faithful and devoted member of the
Presbyterian church and an active and efficient
member of the missionary society of that church,
and was called upon to fill places of trust in
the district and state organizations.
She was the first State Regent of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, a woman of
great refinement and above the average intelli-
gence; she died in Los Angeles, California, but
is buried in Holton, Kansas.
Children :
2114. i. ELIZABETH Hand 11 , b. August 9, 1871.
married :
Dr. Perry L. Jermaine, a graduate of Jeffer-
son Medical College; d. March.. 1905; one
daughter :
2115. ELIZABETH Lee Jermaine 12 .
This family live in Los Angeles, California.
2116 v. DR. JOHN THOMAS SCOTT 10 , b. August 8,
1847, in Bainbridge, Indiana; d. March 1, 3908,
in Mobile, Alabama; m. 1st, 1868:
Sara Ann Shackelford ; m. 2nd, Nov. 3, 1875,
Flora Williams. Children by first marriage:
2117. i. JEFFERSON Scott 11 , b. March 27, 1870,
in Holton, d. young.
2118. ii. FREDERICK Thornton Scott 11 , b. May
18, 1872, in Holton; married
Laura Oldham, of Kansas City, Mo.
Children of Dr. John T. and Flora (Wil-
liams) Scott:
2119. iii. SARAH Eva Scott", b. December 10,
1878 ; married at Holton, Kansas :
Other Families 587
Arlington J. Ash, he died February, 1918.
Children :
2120. i. NADIUS Scott Ash'-, b. December
4, 1900.
2121. ii. VIRGINIA Arlington Ash 12 , b. Jan-
uary 19, 1907.
2122. iv. DON Wallace Scott 11 , b. November 12,
1884; m. March 14, 1904, at Holton, Kan.
Elizabeth McDonald; one daughter:
2123. LILLIAN Ruth Scott 12 , b. July 12, 1905
2124. v. ROSWELL Thomas Scott 11 , b. June 11,
1891; married January 12, 1912:
Grace Griffin. Children:
2125. i. DON Thomas Scott 12 , b. October 10,
1912.
2126. ii. A son 12 .
2127. vi. WILLIAM Wallace Scott 10 , b. April 23,
1850, in Bainbridge, Indiana; d. Sept. 4, 1879,
at Holton, Kansas ; m. at Leavenworth, Kansas,
in 1876:
Mattie Guion; she m. 2nd, James P. Burrell.
2128. vii. FRANK Sellers Scott 10 , b. September 4,
1857, at Bainbridge, Indiana; m. Noverber 27,
1884, at Holton, Kansas:
Minnie Taber; no issue.
D. A. R. RECORD
Mrs. Martha A. Scott Hand National No. 6518,
born in Indiana ; widow of Hiram Hand.
Descendant of Samuel Scott of North Carolina.
Daughter of William Thornton Scott and Sarah Ann Sel-
lers, his wife,
Grand dau. of Samuel Scott and Martha McCorkle, his
wife.
588 SlGGINS AND
Samuel Scott was thirteen when the war began, but he
took part in the battle of King's Mountain. His brothers,
Thomas and William, also served in the militia.
(D. A. R. Lineage Book, Vol. II, p. 176.)
Mrs. Mary Hamilton Beck. National No. 8402, born
in Indiana ; wife of M. M. Beck.
Descendant of Samuel Scott of North Carolina. Daughter
of Wm. T. Scott and Sarah Ann Sellers, his wife.
Grand daughter of Samuel Scott and Martha McCorkle, his
wife.
Samuel Scott was at the battle of King's Mountain as
were his brothers, William and Thomas.
(D. A. R. Lineage Book, Vol IX, p. 152.)
Esther Kavanaugh Nell— National No. 98615, wife of
Charles Julian Marshall Mitchell, Descendant of Samuel
Scott and Martha McCorkle.
Other Families 589
THE NELL FAMILY.
2129. JOHN NELL, the immigrant ancestor, tradition
says, came from Germany at an early age and
settled in Pennsylvania, the records of Paxton
township, Lancaster Co., Pa., show : in 1773, one
"John Nell Acres 100; Horses 1; Cattle 5;
Servants 1 ; Tax 7.0." (Penn Archives, 3d se-
ries, Vols. 9, p. 26, 17. p. 380). He served in the
Revolutionary War, died in Metcalf Co., Ky.,
agd. 94. He married Catlin, sister
of Dora Catlin. The Catlins came from Ireland.
Children :
2130.* i. DORA Nell 2 ; m.,
Jennie Harvey, in Adair Co., Ky.
2131.* ii. GEORGE Nell 2 , m.,
Sallie Polly ; he m. 2d.,
Martha ("Patsey") Thurmond.
2132.* iii. PHILIP Nell 2 ; m. 1st., unknown, 2nd.,
Nancy Isaacs.
2133.*iv. JAMES Nell 2 , m.,
Nancy Thurmond.
2134. v. ELIZABETH Nell 2 , m.
James Harvey, moved to 111. or Ind.
2135.* vi. MARGARET Nells 2 , m.,
James Edwards.
2135a. MARY Nell 2 , d. unm.
(2130). DORA NELL 2 , married Jennie Harvey, and
lived in Adair Co., Ky. Children:
2136.* i. GEORGE NelP, m.
Rachel Turner, of Adair Co., Ky.
590 SlGGINS AND
2137. ii. OLIVER Nell 3 , m.
Mitchell, had one son Dora, d. young.
2138.* iii. JAMES Nell 3 , m.
CATHERINE Townsend, of Milltown, Ky.
2139. iv. CHARLOTTE Nell 3 , m.,
Jackson Patterson, no issue. He d. in Ky., and
she in Texas. They reared: John Killman of
Honey Grove, Texas.
2140.* v. SALLIE Nell 3 , m.,
Washington Breeding, of Adair Co., Ky.
2141. vi. ELIZABETH Nell 3 and two other daughters
and a son Jack, d. young.
(2136) GEORGE NELL 3 , married Rachel Turner, and
lived in Adair Co., Ky., she married 2d. George Nell (No.
2210) as his 2d wife. Children :
2142. i. HENRY Nell 4 , m., no issue; d. in Texas in
1904.
2143. ii. ALVIN Nell 4 , m.
Dora Huntsinger, they have one son,
LOUIS Nell r ', b. in Bosworth, Missouri.
2144. iii. JOHN Nell 4 , married; d. before 1918.
2145. iv. MARY Nell 4 , m.,
Dr. C. M. Russell, of Columbia, Ky., she d. before
1918 ;one daughter:
REGINA Russell 5 , m.,
Ward Denton, of Somerset, Ky.
(2138) JAMES NELL 3 , married Catherine Townsend.
Children :
2146. i. GEORGE Henry Nell 4 , m.,
Maggie Yates, of Gradyville, Ky. Their four
Children were: Guy, Creel, Catherine, and
Alline.
Other Families 591
2147. ii. SALLIE Nell 4 , m.,
Hezekiah Pickett; lives (1918) in Texas.
iii. ANNIE Nell 4 , d. unm.
iv. JOHN W. Nell 4 , d. unm.
v. JUDGE Nell 4 , married and died before 1918.
2147a.*GUY Nell, m.
Mable Adkins, and had one child named Guy.
2147b. CREEL Nell, m.,
Earnest Harris; one child.
(2140) Sallie Nell 3 , married
Washington Breeding. Children:
2148. i. CASSIUS Breeding 4 , m.,
Ann Elizabeth Orr, they had an only son Guy
Breeding 5 , who m., Miss Dehoney, they live in
Cane Valley Ky.
2149. ii. FINNIS Breeding 4 , m.,
Lockie Jones, their children were: Clyde and Lo-
ra Breeding, they live in Glasgow, Ky.
2150. iii. CHARLIE Breeding 4 , lives in Oklahoma City,
Okla. Children were: Hulda and Porter.
2151. iv. HULDA Jane Breeding 4 , m., July 8, 1875;
Dr. H. L. Cartwright, and had:
2151a. i. ESTELLA Cartwright 5 , m.,
Dr. G. 0. Doggett, of Charlott, N. C, she is a
member of the D. A. R.
2151b. ii. MASON Breeding Cartwright 5 .
2151. v. PORTER Breeding 4 , d. unm.
(2131) GEORGE NELL 2 , "served as a private in Capt.
John W. Shirley's Company of Infantry 7th (Barbees) Ken-
tucky Militia, War 1812; Enlisted August 23, 1812, dis-
charged March 23, 1813 ; he was a member of the Metho-
dist Church and lived on a farm in Adair County, Ky., he
married, 1st.,
592 SlGGINS AND
Sallie Polly; m. 2nd., Martha ("Patsey") Thurmond.
Children: first marriage:
2152.* i. MARY Nell 3 , m. J. W. Flowers.
2153.* ii. NANCY Nell 8 , m. James Fletcher.
2154. iii. SARAH Nell 3 , m.,
Henry Farlee; their children are: George, Bet-
ty, Curtis, Winfield, William, Clay, James and
Martha, all married.
2155.* iv. MARTHA Nell 3 , m. Benjamin Pollard.
2156. v. ELIZABETH Nell 3 , m. 1st:
Benjamin Malone, and had one son: Benjamin
Malone, Jr.; m. 2nd:
Hessenflow, who was killed in the civil
war, left several sons; m. 3d.,
Butler.
Children second marriage:
2157.* vi. JAMES Nell 3 , m.,
Lucettie Edwards, dau of John and Keziah ( )
Flowers.
2158.* vii. TIMOTHY F. Nell 3 , m.,
Polly Catherine Hindman.
2159.* viii. EDWARD M. Nell 3 , m. twice.
2160. ix. HENRY Nell 3 , not m., was killed by lightning
in Johnson Co., Mo.
2161. x. HARRIET Nell 3 , d. young.
(2152) Mary Nell 3 , b. May 24, 1822; m. February 16,
1840;
J. W. Flowers. Children:
2162. i. SALLIE Hudson Flowers', b. December 8,
1840; m. 1st, Thomas Wright, and had one
child:
Other Families 593
CRITAN Wright 5 .
m. 2nd, John Henry Anderson, and had one
daughter:
EMMA Anderson.
2163. ii. JURIAH Lee Flowers 4 , b. May 13, 1843 ; d. in
1863; m. George Sharp, and had one child who
died in infancy.
2164. iii. NANCY Jane Flowers 4 , b. September 6, 1845 ;
d. in 1878, in Iowa; m. John Eskew, and had
one daughter:
MARY Eskew; who m. Snow;
they live in Iowa.
2165. iv. ADALINE Allen Flowers 4 , b. April 15, 1847;
m. Richard Venable, in Iowa; they had six chil-
dren; two of their sons are living.
2166. v. WILLIAM Porter Flowers 4 , b. January 31,
1850; lives in Columbia, Ky. ; m. Diddle Bragg;
no children.
2167. vi. MARTHA Ann Flowers 4 , b. February 14,
1852; m. Richard Downs, in Nebraska; and had
three chlidren: Nellie; not-m.; James, m. and
lives in California; has three children; Edna, m.
B. W. Dixon; and had two children: Harry and
Mildred Dixon.
2168.6 vii. GEORGE Thomas Flowers 4 , b. August 31,
1854; m. Nancy Harden Harvey, January 25,
1876; she d. Aug. 12, 1905.
2169.* viii. HENRY Columbus Flowers 4 , b. May 18, 1857 ;
m. Marcella Wilcoxson.
(2153) NANCY NELL 1 , married JAMES FLETCHER,
son of Green and Nancy (Scott) Fletcher.
(1944) Nancy Scott, was a daughter of:
594 SlGGINS AND
(1934) SAMUEL and MARTHA (McCORKLE),
SCOTT.
(2155) Martha Nell 3 , married Benjamin Pollard.
Children :
2170. i. HARRIET Pollard 4 , m. Page.
2171. ii. WILLIAM Pollard 4 , m. and d. in Texas, left
several children.
2172. iii. MARY Pollard 4 , m. Butler, in Green
Co., Ky., d. a few years later, leaving several
small children.
2173. iv. MARTHA Pollard 4 , d. young.
2174. v. GEORGE Pollard 4 , m. Thomas, lives in
Missouri; has several children.
2175. vi. VICTORIA Pollard 4 , m. Butler, no
children.
2176. vii. SELDEN Pollard 4 , d. in early manhood.
2177. viii. FANNIE Pollard 4 , m. Robinson; live
in Adair Co., Ky.
2178. ix. MINNIE Pollard 4 , m. John Morrison; they
live in Columbia, Ky., and have several children.
(2157) James Nell 3 ; m. Lucettie Edwards ; b. abt. 1847.
He served in the Civil War. Was a physician m Gradyville,
Ky. Children :
2157-a i. LAWRENCE 4 ; m. Lula Yates, of Gradyville,
Ky., and had 5 ch., all of whom were drowned in
the flood of except one daughter,
CHRISTINE NelP, living in Gradyville,
had one child:
LAWRENCE Nell, Jr. 5 .
LAWRENCE Nell 4 , is a celebrated physician, was
State Senator of Ky.
2157-b ii. HALLIE Nell 4 ; d. unm.
Other Families 595
2157-c iii. HATTIE Nell 4 ; d. young.
2157-d. iv. ALICE Nell 4 ; m. 1st Charles Harris, cf ^elta
Co., Texas, had:
i. LILLIE Harris 5 .
ii. ODUS Harris 5 .
iii. RALPH Harris 5 .
Alice Nell 4 , m. 2d Asa Brewer, no children.
2157-e v. LIZZIE Mollie Nell 4 ; m. Zed Aiken, of Okla-
homa, and had:
PAUL Aiken 5 .
MARY Aiken 5 .
iii. IRENE Aiken 5 .
iv. BERTHA Aiken 5 .
v. CLIFFORD Aiken 5 .
vi. LULA Nell Aiken 5 .
2157-f vi. GEORGE Elbert Nell 4 , married Ella Rose;
served 3 years in Spanish war, is now (1918)
in the dry goods business in Gradyville, Ky.
i. WALLACE Nell 5 , d. young.
ii. CARL Nell 3 .
iii. WILLIAM Lyle Nell 5 .
vi. FRANK Nell 5 .
2157-g vii. IRENE Nell 4 , married J. H. Gist, of Texas
and had:
TRENTON Gist 5 .
i. WILLIE Gist 5 .
ii. MARY Gist 5 .
596 SlGGINS AND
iv. RAYMOND Gist 5 , died after the death
of his father.
2157-h viii. EUGENE Nell 4 , m. Catherine Beauchamp.
He is now (1918) dry goods merchant in Gra-
dyville, Ky., and had children:
i. MARY Nell 5 .
ii. WOODSON Nell 5 .
(2158) TIMOTHY NELL ! , b. April 5, 1844, in Adair
Co., Ky.; m. January 16, 1873, Polly Catherine Hindman,
b. February 15, 1849. September 23, 1861, at the age of
17, he enlisted at Columbia, Ky., in Company B., 13th Ky.
Volunteer Infantry, U. S. A. The regimental officers were :
Col. E. H. Hobson; Carlisle, Lt. Col.; Wm. E. Hob-
son, Major; Wm. Stuart, Sergt, Major; Dr. Thomas Moore,
1st Surgeon; Dr. Hughes, Captain; Nathan Butler, 1st
Lieut; J. R. Hindman, 2nd Lieut. He served until Jan-
uary 12, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at
Louisville, Ky. He was wounded in battle at Reseca, Geor-
gia. He was a devout member of the Methodist Church.
In June, 1893, removed to Somerset, Ky., where he engaged
in the milling and machinery business, and where he died
June 9, 1911. They had one daughter:
2179. ESTHER KAVANAUGH NELL*, b. August 11,
1888, in Campbellsville, Kentucky. She studied
music at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,
completing courses for both Violin and Piano,
and taught music in colleges and private classes
for a number of years. She is a member of the
Bryant Station Chapter, D. A. R., of Lexing-
ton, Ky. National No. 98615, being a descend-
ant of (1934) SAMUEL SCOTT, a Revolution-
ary Soldier. She married, August 14, 1914, in
Cincinnati, Ohio, Charles Julian Marshall Mit-
chell, b. August 22, 1876, in Louisville, Ken-
tucky. Mr. Mitchell is a talented artist and at
present engaged in the advertising business in
Kansas City, Mo. He is descended from the
Marshall family, his lineage being:
Other Families
597
i. John and Elizabeth (Markham) Marshall.
ii. Col. Thomas and Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall.
iii. Alexander Keith and Mary (McDowell) Marshall.
iv. James Keith and Catherine (Hickman) Marshall.
v. Charles W. and Mary McDowell (Marshall) Mitch-
ell.
vi. Charles Julian Marshall Mitchell.
(2159).
2180.
2181.
2182.
2183.
(2159),
2184.
2185.
2186.
2187.
2188.
2189.
—39
VI.
vii.
viii.
ix.
Edward M. Nell 3 , m. 1st, Matilda Staples, of Co-
lumbia, Ky. Children:
LIDA Nell 4 , m. Robert Moss; their children
are: Edmond and Ophie Moss.
LULA Nell 4 , m. Milton Martin; they live in
Tullahoma, Tenn ; no children.
HATTIE Nell 4 , m. James Eubanks, of Co-
lumbia, Ky. ; their children are: Martin, who d.
in infancy, and James Gilliam Eubanks.
LANY Nell 4 , m. George Staples, of Columbia,
Ky. ; they have one son: George Staples.
EDWARD M. Nell 3 , m. 2d, Amanda Winston
Kinnaird, who d. in 1915. Children:
MARVIN Nell 4 , m. James Samuel Darnell, of
Frankfort, Ky. ; their children are : James Sam-
uel, Jr., and Dorothy Winston Darnell.
GILLIAN Nell 4 .
PEARLE Nell 4 .
LILLIAN Nell 4
field, Ky.
MARY Nell*.
m. Warren Stone, of Litch-
ANN Nell 4 , FAIRY Orlena 4 and GEORGE'
who d. in infancy.
598
SlGGINS AND
(2168). George Thomas Flowers 4
Harvey. Children :
m. Nancy Harden
2190. i. GEORGE Thomas Flowers 5 , b. November 18,
1876; m. June 19, 1906; Willa Pierce Eades, b.
December 14, 1877; he was a soldier in the
Spanish-American War; and elected sheriff of
Wayne Co., Ky., in November, 1917. Children:
2191 RUPERT Ryan Flowers 6 , b. April 25, 1907.
2192. LUCILE Eades Flowers 6 , b. February 3,
1909.
2193. NANCY Elizabeth Flowers 6 b. November
5, 1911.
2194. WILLIA Thomas Flowers 6 , b. March 14,
1914.
2195. ii. LYDUS Givenier Flowers 5 , b. March 11,
1878; m. May 22, 1898, C. O. Moss, cashier of
the Gradyville State Bank, of Gradyville, Ky. ;
and had: Mary Hardin Moss, d. in infancy;
James Alfred, b. August 30, 1912; and Harriet
Livingston Moss, b. October 14, 1917.
2195a. iii. JAMES Garfield Flowers 1 , b. December 27,
1879 ; is a traveling salesman in Texas.
2196. iv. MOLLIE Ryan Flowers 5 , b. 1890; graduated
at the Logan Female College at Russelville, Ky.,
in 1912, with high honors.
2197. v. PORTER Lee Fowers 5 , b. June 30, 1893; is
now serving in the Aviation Corps, U. S. A.
(2159). Dr. Edward M. Nell', was born near Grady-
ville, Ky., December 15, 1847; d. at Frankfort, Ky., August
23, 1896; he was 16 years of age when the Civil War com-
menced and ran away from home to enlist in the Union
Army; he was wounded while in service; after the close
of the war he became a physician; he served several terms
Other Families 599
in the Kentucky House of Representatives and Senate, and
as presidential elector; he was a devoted member of the
Methodist Church.
(2132). Philip Nell-, m. 2d, Nancy Isaacs, and had
one son:
OTHA Nell 3 , who served in the Mexican War;
he married and lived at Rowletts Station, Hart
Co., Ky.
(2133). James NelP, m. Nancy Thurmond. Children:
2198. i. FELIX G. Nell 3 , b. 1832; not-m. d. ; 1853, in
St. Louis.
2199. ii. JOHN Nell 3 , b. 1834; m. Elizabeth Mathews,
in Taylor Co., Ky. ; they had one son :
WILLIAM Nell 4 , who was killed in a Texas
cyclone.
2200. iii. FRANK Nell 3 , b. 1838; m. Betsy Ann Turk;
he was with Morgan during the Civil War.
Their children were : Frank Jr., Bob., and Ann,
who m. Marks, of Springfield, Ky.
GEORGE Nell 3 b. 1840; m. 1st, Malinda Mc-
Ginnis.
ANN Eliza Nell 3 , b. 1837; m. W. Mosby.
SUSAN Nell 3 , b. 1842; m. W. Hatcher, of
Pearle, lii., and had: Charles and Fannie
Hatcher.
2204. vii. CHESNEY Nell 3 , b. 1845; m. Sallie Roberts;
no issue.
2205. viii. CHARLES Nell 3 , b. 1852; n-m. ; lives at
Beardstown, 111.
2206. ix. EMILY Nell 3 , b. 1855; d. young.
2201*
iv.
2202.*
v.
2203.
vi,
600 SlGGINS AND
2207. x. WILLIAM Nell 3 , b. 1858; m. and had one son,
Elmer, who d. young.
2208. xi. JAMES B. Nell 8 , b. 1847; m. Sallie Crabtree,
and had: Elmer 4 , m. Leonard;
lived at White Hall, 111. ; and Belle 4 , who m. John
Little, and had : Sallie Little 5 , and two sons.
2209. xii. AMANDA Ellen Nell 8 , b. 1850; m. 1st, James
McGinnis, and had a son: Felix McGinnis 4 , m.
and had a large family; lived at Pearle, Pike
Co., 111.; she m. 2d, Alexander Ferguson, and
lived in Strout, 111.
2210. xiii. THOMAS Nell 3 , b. 1856; m. and had 7 or 8
children.
(2201). George Nell 3 , b. abt. 1815; married 1st, Malinda
McGinnis; m. 2d, Rachel (Turner) Nell, widow of his
cousin George Nell, No. 2136.
Children of George Nell 3 and Malinda McGinnis:
2201-a i. CORDELIA Nell 4 , m. Joseph Rosenfield of Co-
lumbia, Ky. ; and had children:
2201-b i. GEORGE Nell Rosenfield 5 , m. Frances
Cox, of Smith's Grove, Ky.
2201-c ii. LINA Rosenfield 5 , m. C. M. Barnett, of
Evansville, 111.
2201-d iii. MADGE Rosenfield 5 .
2201-e fv. JOE Morris Rosenfield 5 , medical surgeon
in the war (1918).
2201-f v. CARY Rosenfield.
(2202). Ann Eliza Nell 3 , b. 1837; married W. Mosby.
Children :
2211. i. MOLLIE Mosby 4 , m. William Breeding, and
had: Beauford, Eula, Hattie, Ann and a son.
Other Families 601
2212. ii. GEORGE Alfred Mosby 4 , m. a Garmon, and
had a son, Lee Mosby.
2213. iii. SARA Mosby 4 , m. Joseph Shivers, and had:
Ethel Shivers 5 , who m. Robert Royce.
2214. iv. ANN Mosby 4 , m. Joseph Strange, of Glenn-
ville, Ky., and had one son.
2215. v. LAURA Mosby 4 , m. a Garmon, they live in
Texas.
2216. vi. CATHERIN Mosby 4 , m. Robert Breeding, and
had: Mina and Corbet, who m. and had:
Mabel, Laura and Raymond.
2217. vii. JOHN Mosby 4 , m. a Hurt, they lived at Cum-
berland, Ky.
JAMES T. EDWARDS 2 , m. Margaret Nell (No. 2135).
He was killed during Civil War. Children :
*i. JOHN Edwards, m. Keziah Flowers, he taught
school for many years.
ii. ELIZABETH Edwards; d. young.
iii. FRANK Edwards; d. young.
iv. ANDREW Edwards, d. unm; taught school for a
number of years.
*v. WILLIAM Edwards, m. Sophia Patterson.
Children of John and Keziah (Flowers ) Edwards.
i. LUCETTIE Edwards, b. abt. 1847; m. Dr. James
Nell No. 2157.
ii. ELIZABETH Edwards, m. Harvey Cobb; they live
in Ladonia, Texas ; have children :
i. HERCHEL Cobb.
ii. ELBERT Cobb.
iii. ANNIE Cobb.
602 SlGGINS AND
iv. ROSY Cobb.
v. DAISEY, twin of Rosy.
vi. CORINE Cobb.
iii. JURIAH Edwards, m. Tyra Garrard, and have one
child:
i. GLENN Garrard.
WILLIAM F. Edwards, m. Mattie ,
and had
HELEN Edwards.
i. GEORGIA Edwards.
ii. WILLIE Edwards.
v. ETNA Edwards.
v. SAMUEL H. Edwards, m. Annie Miller; they
had children:
i. GUY Edwards.
ii. Joseph Edwards.
iii. SAMUEL Hallie Edwards, in the war with
Germany; d. in the South.
iv. ALLEN Edwards, d. young.
v. DORA Edwards.
vi. D. C. Edwards.
vi. JOHN A. Edwards ( ), m. Olive Smithson; live
in Oklahoma.
i. MAGGIE Edwards, m. Huston Wynn, and has
i. LILLIE Wynn.
ii. ETHYL Wynn.
iii. WALTER Wynn.
iv. SAMUEL Wynn.
Other Families 603
vii. GEORGE Edwards ( ), m. Mary Hensley, lives in
Oklahoma; has several children.
viii. KATHERINE Edwards, ( ) m. William Wynn,
live in Oklahoma, have several children.
ix. JOSEPH Edwards ( ), m. Norah . He
is now (1918) state treasurer of the state of
Texas, and lives in Austin. They have one
child:
i. HAZEL Edwards.
WILLIAM EDWARDS, son of James and Margaret
(Nell) Edwards; m. Sophia Patterson. Children:
i. SALLIE Margaret Edwards, m. Gib-
son; had 2 sons.
ii. TIMOTHY Edwards, m. Cytha Carter, and have
several children.
iii. JOHN Edwards, m. Dorsey; have two
children, a son and dau.
iv. ELIZABETH Edwards, m. Taylor.
v. MATTIE Edwards, m. Bennet, and
have children.
vii. JANE Edwards, m. .
604 SlGGINS AND
BANNING RECORD.
(2009). LOUISA CAROLINE WALKER 10 , dau. of Jo-
seph Gilmer and Martha (Scott) Walker; b. Jan. 15, 1817,
in Columbia, Adair Co., Ky. married as second wife:
EPHRAIM BANNING, (son of John and Elizabeth
(Black) Banning, son of Benoni Banning of Talbot Co.,
Md.), and had nine children; lived in McDonough County,
111., for nearly twenty years ; later going to Douglas County,
Kan., where his home was the meeting place of the "Free
Soilers" during the border warfare. There the papers
were drawn up that later admitted Kansas as a "Free
State", but after a year or so there, again removing to
Brookfield, Mo., where they remained and died; she Aug.
10, 1887, and he Nov. 8, 1878. Children:
2218. i. JOSEPH Gilmer Banning 11 , b. May 12, 1842;
m. Nov. 3, 1870, Letitia Ann Miller, in Linn Co.,
Mo. ; he d. May 9, 1908 ; he was in the Civil War.
Children :
2219. i. EPHRAIM Pinkney Banning 1 -.
2220. ii. MARGARET Ellen Banning 1J .
2221. iii. LETITIA Louise Banning 1 -.
2222. iv. THOMAS Gilmer Banning 12 .
2223. v. CAROLINE Agness Banning 1 -.
2224. ii. PINKNEY Asa Banning 11 , b. July 22, 1845,
in McDonough Co., 111.; enlisted in the Twelfth
Mo. Vol. Cav. ; wounded at the battle of Nash-
ville; d. Jan. 27, 1865; unmarried.
2225. iii. ELIZABETH Mary Banning 11 , b. Jan. 31,
1847; d. June 17, 1902; in Harrisonville, Mo.;
Other Families 605
m. Sept. 1881, in Brookfield, Mo., Charles Ver-
trees, of Walnut Grove Township, McDonough
Co., 111., children: Edwin Alfred, and Earnest;
both d. young.
2226. iv. EPHRAIM Banning, Jr. 11 , born July 21, 1849,
in McDonough Co., 111. ; m. Lucretia Thalia Lind-
sey dau. of Thales Lindsey, and Caroline Lu-
cretia Pierson, of LeRoy, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1878, in
Onarga, 111.; had 3 children; she d. Feb. 5,
1887, in Chicago. He m. Sept. 5, 1887, Emily
Bartlett Jennie of Elgin, 111. ; no children. He d.
Dec. 2, 1907. Children:
2227.* i. PIERSON Worrall Banning 12 , b. Sept. 13,
1879.
2228. ii. WALKER Banning 12 , b. Feb. 9, 1882.
2229. ii. EPHRAIM Banning 12 , b. Aug. 7, 1885.
2230. v. THOMAS Allen Banning 11 , b. Jan. 16, 1851, in
McD. Co., Bl.; m. Dec. 21, 1875, in Highland,
Kansas, Sarah Jane Hubbard, of Bowling Green,
Ky. Children :
2231. i. SAMUEL Walker Banning 12 , b. Nov. 16,
1878.
2232. ii. EDITH Banning 12 , b. Jan. 11, 1882.
2233. iii. HELEN Ruth Banning 12 , b. Dec. 16,
1883; d. Oct. 1.
2234. iv. THOMAS Allen Banning 12 , b. Apr. 12,
1886.
2235. v. SARAH Louise Banning 12 , b. June 25,
1888.
2236. vi. DOROTHEA Banning 12 , b. Aug. 11, 1894.
2237. vii. ESTHER Banning 12 .
2239.
2240.
ii.
2241.
iii.
2242.
iv.
2243.
v.
2244.
vi.
2245.
vii
606 SlGGINS AND
2238. vi. CYRUS Walker Banning 11 , b. Jan. 4, 1853, in
McD. Co., 111. ; m. Apr. 18, 1878, in Wayne Co.,
la., Nancy Ellen Miller; had seven children;
lived in Seymour, la., till 1911; when he re-
moved to Milford, Utah. Children:
BERTHA Lucile Banning 12 .
JENNIE Malvern Banning 12 .
THOMAS EPHRAIM Banning 12 .
ALMA Louise Banning 12 .
Cyrus Walker Banning 12 .
HUBERT Charles Banning 12 .
ASHLEY Banning 12 .
2246. vii.. HUBERT Ashley Banning 11 , b. June 7, 1855,
in Douglas Co., Kansas; m. Nov. 23, 1881, in
New York City, Viola H. Suydam. One son:
2247. HUBERT Temple Banning 12 .
2248. viii. CYNTHIA Ellen Banning 11 , b. Mch. 6, 1858, in
Douglas Co. Ks.; m. Nov. 16, 1882, Hiram Al-
manson Smith, of Chicago, 111. Children:
2249. i. CYNTHIA Ellen Smith 12 .
2250. ii. ALICE Marion Smith 12 .
2251. iii. HIRAM Almanson Smith 12 .
2252. ix. MARTHA Bell Banning 11 , b. June 12, 1860, in
Pettis Co., Mo. ; m. Sept. 6, 1887, in Chicago, 111.,
George Augustus Lawton, of Green Bay, Wis.
Children :
2253. i. SOPHIE Louise Lawton 12 .
2254. ii. HELEN Margaret Lawton 12 .
2255 iii. GRACE Lawton 12 .
Other Families 607
IV.
v. l2 , twin boys.
2256. vi. GEORGE Augustus Lawton 12 .
2257. vii. WILLIAM Ephraim Lawton 12 .
2258. viii. WALTER Banning Lawton 12 .
2259. ix. RUTH Lawton 12 .
(2227). PIERSON WORRELL BANNING, was born
September 13, 1879 in Chicago, 111; after completing the
public school course in that city, he attended the Lawrence-
ville, N. J. school for boys ; he completed his academic work
at Lake Forest Academy ; selecting law as his profession he
attended the Chicago-Kent Law School.
His experiences have been varied, as a construction en-
gineer he has built office buildings in Chicago, construction
for the I. & R. R. Railway Co. ; while in South America he
represented the N. N. A. Insurance Company.
He has edited various publications and in his editorial
work he has devoted much time to publicity and efficiency,
has prepared statistical reports on costs of field crops and
agricultural work in the central west ; as a publicist he con-
ducted the major part of the Social Survey of the City of
Los Angeles.
He has created an interest in genealogy and family his-
tory, and has charge of the historical and genealogical li-
brary in Los Angeles, which under his management has in-
creased its collection over 200 per cent.
Mr. Banning married May 16, 1913, in Los Angeles, Miss
Lila Banning Watkins, daughter of Frank William and
Mary Blackstone (Banning) Watkins, of Springfield,
Massachusetts.
608 SlGGINS AND
LINEAGE.
JOHN Walker 1 , of Wigton, Scotland, married, Jane Mc-
Knight;
their son
JOHN Walker 2 , the emigrant to Virginia, married, Kather-
ine Rutherford, dau. of John and Isabella (Allein)
Rutherford, and grand-daughter of Rev. Joseph Al-
lein, author of "Allein's Alarm" ;
their son
ALEXANDER Walker 1 , b. May 19, 1716, at Newry, Ireland ;
d. in Rockbridge Co., Va., abt. 1784-5; m. in Virginia,
Jan. 8, 1747, Jane Hammer (or Hummer), who d. in
Woodford Co., Ky., in 1798. He was present at the or-
dination of Rev. Samuel Cummings, April 17, 1766.
Served in the Colonial-Indian and Revolutionary wars.
(Ref. Va. Hist. Magazine, Vol-VIII, pp-278-9. 2nd Se-
ries, Pa., Archives. Vol. XIV.)
their son
ALEXANDER Walker 4 , b. July 12, 1765, in Rockbridge
Co., Va.; d. near Columbia, Ky., July 25, 1824; m.
March 22, 1790, Stauton, Va., Mary Magdaline Har-
mon; b. June 13, 1769, in Chester Co., Pa., dau. of
Abraham and Nancy (Bateman, b. 1735; d. 1778) Har-
mon, grand-daughter of Adam Harmon, b. 1688, in
Wales; came to America and settled in Chester Co.,
Pa., where he d. abt. 1750;
their son
JOSEPH Gilmer Walker \ b. June 17, 1793 ; in Rockbridge
Co., Va. ; d. October 12, 1841, at Macomb, 111. ; he was a
soldier in the War of 1812; m. in Jasamine Co., Ky.,
abt. 1816, Martha "Patsey" Scott, b. November 17,
1795; dau. of Samuel and Martha (McCorkle) Scott,
Other Families 609
grand-daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ruth) Mc-
Corkle; she d. September 16, 1826, near Columbia,
Adair Co., Ky. ;
their daughter
LOUISA Caroline Walker fi , b. January 15, 1817, in Adair
Co., Ky. ; d. August 10, 1887, at Brookfield, Mo. ; m. in
McDonough Co., Ill, May 12, 1842, Ephraim Banning,
b. July 21, 1811, in Rockbridge Co., Va. ; d. November
8, 1878, at Brookfield, Mo. ;
their son
EPHRAIM Banning, Jr. 7 , b. July 21, 1849, in McDonough
Co., 111.; d. December 2, 1907, in Chicago, 111.; m. at
Onaga 111., October 22, 1878; (Mr. Banning was a suc-
cessful lawyer in Chicago) Lucretia Thalia Lindsley,
b. June 5, 1853, at Medina, N. Y. ; d. February 5, 1887,
in Chicago, 111. (She was a dau. of Thales and Caro-
line Lucretia (Pierson) Lindsley) ;
their son
PIERSON WORRALL BANNING 8 , b. September 13, 1879,
in Chicago; m. May 16, 1913, in Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, Lila Banning Watkins, dau. of Frank Wilson
and Mary Blackstone (Banning) Watkins, of Spring-
field, Mass.
610 SlGGINS AND
SCOTT FAMILY.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, (South West Virginia)
Revolutionary Soldiers from, History of
South West Virginia, 1746-1786. by, Lewis
Preston Summers.
p-864 — Archibald Scott, at Kings Mountain.
Alexander Scott, at Kings Mountain.
Robert Scott, at Kings Mountain.
Samuel Scott, at Kings Mountain.
Walter Scott, at Kings Mountain.
William Scott, at Kings Mountain.
Thomas Scott, at Kings Mountain.
p-863 — John Scott, Captain Rowland Madison's Company;
d. in service.
p-863 — Lt. Joseph Scott, Sr. King's Mountain.
Joseph Scott, King's Mountain.
p-864— William Walker.
p-865— Capt. James Scott, in War of 1812.
p-866 — Lt. James Scott, in War of 1812.
Lt. Charles Scott, in War of 1812.
Military Record.
Roll of the Third Company ; New Pennsylvania Eleventh ;
Capt. George Bush.
Lieut. William Lemon.
Private John Scott, March 26, 1777; died in Harrison
Co., Ky.
March 3, 1827 aged seventy-six.
(Pa. Ar. 2nd S. Vol. XI, p. 58.)
"General Charles Scott, a soldier in the French and In-
dian Wars and also in the Revolution, afterward governor
Other Families 611
of Kentucky, was a nephew of Judith Scott, who married
Peter Ware; his will recorded in March 1742, at Gooch-
land Court House, mentions his "loving wife Judith" and
their six children; she married second Col. Samuel Jordon,
February 29, 1745.
The Scott family was a prominent one among the early
settlers of old Goochland. They intermarried with Hugue-
nots."
(Cabells and their Kin; p.-144-5.)
"General Charles Scott, the fourth governor of Kentucky,
was born in Cumberland County; he was elected in 1808,
defeating the gallant Colonel John Allen, who fell at the
battle of the river Raisin. He was a man of limited edu-
cation, and somewhat unpolished in manners, but of strong
ability; he d. about 1820, having reached a very advanced
age; married Judith (Bell) Gist, widow, of Col. Gist, a Revo-
lutionary officer; dau. of David Bell, (who came from Scot-
land) and his wife Judith Cary, dau. of Henry Cary.
(Illusf Centenial Record of Ky., 1792-1892-p.-15;
and Paxtons Marshall Family.)
"Colonel John Allen, mentioned above, married Jane
Logan, (dau. of Gen. Ben Logan.) their dau. Eliza Sarah
Allen, m. Pierce Butler, son of Capt. Pierce Butler and Mil-
dred Hawkins, his wife; their dau. Ann Eliza Butler, b. July
20, 1840; m. April 26, 1860, Col. T. M. Green; he m. 2d,
Pattie E. Craig, b. April 7, 1839."
(Paxtons Marshall Family.)
PENNSYLVANIA SCOTTS
ABRAHAM SCOTT, of West Nottingham, Pa., d. 1749,
leaving sons Abraham, Hugh, Josiah, Samuel and Thomas.
THOMAS SCOTT, d. 1757, leaving children, Philip,
Thomas, Rebecca, who m. Charles Ramsey in 1776, and
perhaps others. James Scott, a son or grandson of Thomas,
612 SlGGINS AND
lived on the east side of Big Elk, at what is known as
Tweedville. He was killed by the fall of a tree in 1812,
leaving three or four daughters, and sons Thomas, James
and Philip, who lived several years at the old homestead.
Thomas later lived in Lewisville and was an active poli-
tician. Philip Scott, son of the first Thomas above named,
was a justice of the peace, and known as Squire Scott. He
lived between Hickory Hill and Oxford and died at the
age of Eighty -four.
JOHN SCOTT, Esq. lived in New London in 1756 and
was probably a son-in-law of Robert Hodgson.
(Hist, of Chester Co., Pa., by Smith Futhey and
Gilbert Cope).
NEW JERSEY SCOTTS
Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of Jonathan Morrison 4 ,
was b. in Sanborn, New Hampshire, Nov. 2, 1804, married
Feb. 19, 1837, George Roberts. Mrs. George M. Roberts
is a lineal descendant on the paternal side of Henry Scott,
one of the London ten commissioners who secured from
the Crown ten thousand acres of soil on this side of the
Atlantic Ocean in what is now Burlington county, New
Jersey, being one of the early settlers of that region. The
old homestead (now owned by Joseph Scott) stands near
the present site of the Masonic Home of New Jersey, which
was erected on a portion of the Scott farm. The early
members of the Scott family were Quakers but later gen-
erations have become identified with leading other denom-
inations.
John Scott, grandfather of Mrs. George M. Roberts, was
a resident of Burlington, New Jersey, resided on the old
homestead, was widely known, honored and respected as
a good citizen and a man of strict integrity. He and his
family were members of the Episcopal Church. He mar-
Other Families 613
ried Hannah Eldridge of Burlington, New Jersey, whose
ancestors were among the first settlers of West New Jer-
sey, coming from England.
The children born of this union were :
i. ELIZA Scott; m. Joseph Thompson of Burling-
ton, N. J.
ii. MARGARET Scott; m. Thomas Hancock of Bur-
lington.
iii. WARREN Scott; m. the widow Copeland.
iv. JOSEPH D. Scott.
v. NATHAN Scott.
vi. JOHN Hancock Scott; m. Mary Pennington.
vii. HANNAH Scott ; d. Nov. 27, 1907.
viii. MARIA Scott; d. early in life.
(Middlesex Co., Mass., Vol. III. p. 871).
HAMER OR HAMOR.
RALPH HAMER* the elder, merchant-tailor. Was an
incorporator, and for a time a director of the East Indian
Company. He died in 1615, leaving his widow, Susan ex-
ecutrix of his estate. Two of his sons went to Virginia;
Ralph in 1609, and Thomas in 1617. Thomas was at Mas-
ter Harrison's house near Warrasoyack at the time of the
massacre, March 22, 1622. On the 24th of January, 1623,
George Harrison wrote from Jamestown that "Thomas
Hamor was very sick". He probably died before February,
1624.
"RALPH HAMER*, the younger, went to Virginia in
1609, and remaired there until June 18, 1614. On the 8th
of January, 161/, the company gave him eight shares in
Virginia, and on the 15th of January "bills of adventure
allowed to Capt. Raphe Hamor and the persons here under
—40
614 SlGGINS AND
named for every man transported at their charge being 16,
who were to have noe Bonds, vizth; one bill of 12 pounds
10 s, for Mr. Rob. Sturton; one bill of 25 pounds for Mr.
Christo Martin; one bill of 12 pounds 10 s. for Mr. John
Blackall; one bill of 50 pounds for Mr. Tho. Hamor; one
bill of 62 pounds 10 s. for Mr. Raphe Hamor ; one bill of 25
pounds for Mr. William Tucker; one bill of 12 pounds 10 s.
for Mr. Elias Roberts." He sailed from England about
March and arrived in Virginia in May, 1617. He was a
member of the council in Virginia, 1621 to 1628, and prob-
ably after.
(The Genesis of the U. S., by Alexander Brown.
Vol. II. p. 908-9.)
HAMOR'S NARRATION.
October 20, 1614, there was entered at Stationers' Hall
for publication "A booke called 'an Narracon of the present
State of Virginia' by Ralph Hammer." It was published
soon after with the following title: "A True Discourse of
The Present Estate of Virginia, and the successe of af-
faires there till the 18. of June 1614. Together with a Re-
lation of the Severall English Townes and Fortes, the as-
sured hopes of that countrie and the peace concluded with
the Indians. The christening of Powhatans daughter and
her marriage with an English-man. "Written by Raphe
Hamor the younger, late Secretarie in the Colony "Alget,
qui non ardet. "Printed at London by John Beale for
William Welby dwelling at the signe of the Swanne in Pauls
church-yard 1615 (I. e., after Sept. 29, 1614).
Originals are preserved in the libraries of Mr. Charles
Deane, Mr. Kalbfleisch. The Lenox, and the John Carter-
Brown. An original in the Drake sale March 1883, fetched
$345. Quaritch prices a copy at $500.
John Rolfe mentions this tract as having been "faith-
Other Families 615
fully written by a gent of good merit, Mr. Ralph Hamor"
thus indorsing the account of his marriage in his letter."
(Gen. of the U. S. Vol. II. p. 746.)
JANE HAMMER (or HUMMER) or Hamor, married
Alexander Walker, son of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland
and his wife Katherine Rutherford. It has been suggested
that Jane (Hamor) Walker may have been a descendant of
the above and this record is here recorded for future refer-
ence.
Alexander Walker was b. May 19, 1716 ; m. Jan. 8, 1747
Jane Hamer. He d. 1784-5 in Rockbridge co., Va. His
wife d. 1798 in Woodford Co., Kentucky.
Editor.
616 SlGGINS AND
GRAY FAMILY.
FRANCIS GRAY 1 , was one of the first emigrants to
Maryland, for in 1637, three years after the arrival of
Leonard Calvert and his emigrants at St. Mary's, he was
living at St. George's Hundred, which he represented that
year in the General Assembly of Maryland. He continued
to be elected annually till 1643, as the representative from
St. George's. By trade he was a carpenter — a trade of im-
portance in a new country. (See published archives of
Maryland.) He married Alice Moorman who had been
brought to Virginia in 1637 by Capt. Thomas Cornwallis,
one of the Council of Maryland.
(Neill's Founders of Maryland, p. 78.)
Owing to the disturbances in Maryland occasioned by
William Claybourne and the differences between Catholics
and Protestants, several settlements were formed about
1638 on the south bank of the Potomac, at Machodoc and
Chicacoan, under the government of Virginia. Francis
Gray took an active part in these troubles against Lord
Baltimore, and finally found it more agreeable to settle in
Virginia. He sold his cattle in Maryland in 1647, and re-
moving to Machodock, Westmoreland County, Va., died
there in 1667. His will is on record in Westmoreland Coun-
ty, and was dated 7 June, 1667, and proved July 31, 1667.
It names wife Alice, 2 son Francis, 3 daughter Rust, wife
of William Rust ; and mentions Ann Launcelot, daughter of
John Launcelot. Witnesses John Ashton, Mary Gardner.
FRANCIS GRAY 2 , son of Francis Gray 1 , the emigrant,
lived at Machodoc, in Westmoreland County, Va. He mar-
ried Sarah, one of the three daughters of Nathaniel Jones,
a justice of Westmoreland County, (see Land Grants and
Westmoreland County Records). He died about 1687,
Other Families 617
when Thomas Kerton brought suit against Thomas Kitch-
en "who married the relict of Francis Gray." Francis Gray
died without will, but Nathaniel was his eldest son, who
married Mary . This is shown by a deed from
Francis Gray to Thomas Butler, James Butler and Eliza-
beth Butler (the said James and Elizabeth being a son
and daughter of said James Butler) for land "formerly
leased to said Butler by Fancis Gray, father to said
Nathaniel Gray", dated 27 April, 1707. The same day
Mary Gray, wife of said Nathaniel made a deed to Nathan-
iel Pope.
NATHANIEL GRAY% (Francis 2 , Francis 1 , made his will
in Westmoreland County, March 26, 1743, and names chil-
dren. 6 Nathaniel, 7 George, 8 Sarah; she married first
Weedon, and had George Weedon; second William Strother
9 Francis Margaret. He mentions his grandson, George
Weedon, daughter Sarah Strother, and leaves to his son,
George Gray, land at Washington's Mill for life, and then
to his grandson, Nathaniel Gray.
There is a deed dated 1747, recorded in Westmoreland,
from Francis Gray to William Strother for land in Wash-
ington Parish, Westmoreland County bequeathed by Na-
thaniel Gray, of Westmoreland, Gentleman, to his daugh-
ter Sarah, wife of William Strother.
There is a deed recorded in Stafford County from Na-
thaniel Gray, of Washington Parish, in the county of West-
moreland, yeoman, selling to Thomas Kitchen, of the Par-
ish of St. Pauls King George County, 460 acres, once sold
by Jarvis Dodson to Nathaniel Jones, Aug. 20, 1709. There
is the will of James Strother proved in Stafford County,
October 1766. It names brother, French Strother, sister,
Mary, "wife of George Gray, of Stafford Co.," whom he ap-
points executor.
GEORGE GRAY 4 , (Nathaniel 3 , Francis 2 , Francis 1 ,
and Mary Strother had issue 10 GEORGE GRAY 5 , eldest
son and heir at law, which is proved in this way.
618 SlGGINS AND
In King George County there is a deed from Nathaniel
Gray of the county of Caroline, to Henry Alexander Ash-
ton, of the county of King George, which recites that Na-
thaniel Gray, late of the county of Stafford, now King
George, father of the grantor, Nathaniel, his eldest son,
and heir was seized of a tract of land on the north side
of Machodoc Creek in Westmoreland County, as tenant in
fee tail, and having executed a writ of Ad quod damnum,
he sold the same to his brother George Gray, who died
leaving George Gray his eldest son and heir.
GEORGE GRAY 5 , George 4 , Nathaniel 3 , Frances 2 , Franc-
is 1 , married Mildred Thompson daughter of Rev. John
Thompson and Elizabeth Rootes. (See Strother's St.
Mark's Parish and Virginia Magazine of History and Bi-
ography, IV., p. 208.) Issue, John Thompson Gray 6 who
married Mary Ormsby. In Culpepper County there is a
deed dated July 2, 1760, which recites that Daniel French,
then in Fairfax County, and Margaret French, late of King
George County who gave slaves to his said daughter Mar-
garet in his will, of which he made his brother, Hugh
French executor. The deed also states that Jane Strother,
of Culpepper, French Strother, and Mary Gray, wife of
George Gray, were children of the said James Slaughter
and Margaret his wife, late Margaret French deceased,
sister of Daniel French, party to the deed.
There is a deed recorded in Culpepper of Nathaniel Gray
and Mary his wife, to Caroline, dated 1779.
There is a power of attorney from George Weedon re-
corded in Stafford county, to George Gray, to sell his lands,
or, in case of his death, he devises it to his mother, and his
sisters Margaret Strother, Sarah Strother and Patty Stro-
ther. Recorded in 1756, and witnessed by Nathaniel Gray
and others.
(William and Mary Quarterly XII. p. 267.)
Alice Moreman, — married 1639 Francis Gray, carpenter,
who was member of the Assembly 1638.
Other Families 619
(The Founders of Maryland, by Rev. Edward D.
Neill, A. B. p. 99.)
NOTE: We were not able to connect this Francis Gray
with Margaret Gray who married James Walker, but they
were undoubtedly near of kin.
SIMPSON.
LINEAGE OF EMMA (SIGGINS) WHITE.
JOHN Simpson 1 , of Scotland, who settled in the north of
Ireland after the battle of the Boyne, died in Ireland;
at least two of his sons came to America about 1720,
and settled in Paxatang, Lancaster County, Pa.;
his son
THOMAS Simpson 2 , b. 1683, in Ireland; d. 1736, in Pax-
tang, Pa.; married twice; of the children of the 2d, m.
his son
SAMUEL Simpson 3 , assistant quartermaster in the Revo-
lutionary War; b. 1706; d. Dec. 1791; m. abt. 1728,
Hannah ; they were of Abbington Twp.,
Montgomery Co., Pa. ;
their daughter
JEAN Simpson 4 , b. abt. 1730; was living in 1791; m. abt.
1750, William Kinnear, probably in Pennsylvania;
their daughter
MARGARET Kinnear 3 , b. abt. 1760; d. 1821, in Franklin,
Venango County, Pa.; m. Thomas Kinnear (probably
her cousin) ;
their daughter
620 SlGGINS AND
MARGARET Kinnear , b. 1779 ; d. Oct. 10, 1856, in Youngs-
ville, Pa.; m. abt. 1797, Henry Kinnear, Sr., son of
Robert and Elizabeth (Verow) Kinnear, b. 1764, in
Ireland ; d. March 6, 1826, in Youngsville, Pa. ;
their daughter
MARGARET Kinnear, b. Dec. 1, 1801, in Venango Co.,
Pa.; d. April 16, 1877, in Youngsville, Pa.; m. Nov. 7,
1816, in Venango Co., Pa., ALEXANDER SlGGINS, b.
1793, on board ship enroute to America; d. Apr. 7,
1858 ; in Venango Co., Pa. ;
their son
BENJAMIN Baird Siggins 8 ; b. July 27, 1827, in Youngs-
ville, Pa.; d. June 14, 1903; m. Feb. 24, 1856, in
Adair Co., Ky., Elizabeth Erma Walker, b. Feb. 20,
1833, in Adair Co., Ky., d. Sept. 29, 1864.
their daughter
EMMA Siggins 1 *; married Dec. 6, 1882, in Youngsville,
Pennsylvania, John Barber White;
their children are
EMMA Ruth White*.
RAYMOND Baird White 1 '.
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SIMPSON FAMILY.
2260. JOHN SIMPSON 1 , of Scotland, settled in the north
of Ireland after the battle of the Boyne; he
died there and his two sons came to America
about 1720 and settled in Paxtang, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania. These sons were:
2261. i. JOHN Simpson 2 , for many years Recorder of
Northumberland County, Pa.; b. 1680 in Ire-
land; d. 1736, in Paxtang; he was married and
had issue.
2262. ii. THOMAS Simpson 2 , b. 1683, in Ireland; was
twice married but the name of neither wife is
known. Children of Thomas Simpson 2 and his
1st wife:
2263.* i. SAMUEL Simpson- 5 , assistant quarter-
master the Revolutionary War; b. 1706; d.
Dec. 1791 at Paxtang; he m. about 1728,
Hannah who survived him.
2264. ii. JOSEPH Simpson"', b. about 1708 ; m. and
left issue.
2265. iii. WILLIAM Simpson, b. 1710; d. 1775.
He was the first man killed at the battle of
Bunker Hill.
2266. iv. REBECCA Simpson 3 , b. 1712.
2267. v. JOHN Simpson, b. 1714.
Children of Thomas Simpson 2 and his 2d wife:
2268. vi. MARY Simpson : , b. 1732 in Paxtang, Pa. ;
d. 1768; m. Nov. 5, 1751, REV. JOHN
ELDER, b. 1706; d. 1792. He m. 1st abt. 1740,
Mary Baker.
Other Families 623
2269. vii. JANE Simpson 3 , b. 1734 in Paxtang, Pa. ;
d. Feb. 30, 1777; she m. William Kelso, b.
1737; d. Nov. 26, 1788; both were buried in
the Paxtang cemetery.
2270. viii. THOMAS Simpson 3 , b. 1736 in Paxtang.
He m. and had issue.
2271. ix. GENERAL MICHAEL SIMPSON 3 , b.
1740, in Paxtang, Pa. ; d. June 1, 1813, and is
buried at Paxtang; m. May 26, 1808, in Phil-
adelphia, Mrs. Susan Graham; she is said to
have been his 3rd, wife.
RECORDS OF SAMUEL SIMPSON.
The Associators of Philadelphia to the Committee.
Philadelphia, 5th Feb., 1776.
To the Honorable the Committee of Safety from the prov-
ince of Pennsylvania :
The petition of the Committee of Privates of the associa-
tion belonging to the City and Liberties of Philadelphia
humbly sheweth: That as it is of the utmost consequence
in the prosecution of our present most righteous opposi-
tion to Tyranny and Arbitrary Power, that none be com-
missioned as officers in the Continental Service but those
who manifest the most sincere and warm attachment to
the cause of Liberty, and, as the Honorable the Continent-
al Congress has entrusted the appointment of all inferior
and the recommendation of all superior officers for this
honorable board.
Your petitioners do pray this honorable board to appoint
or recommend none but such as have signed the articles of
association given out by the honorable House of Represen-
tatives of the freeman of this province, seeing this ought
at this time to be considered as the strongest mark of at-
tachment to the cause which our present circumstance
will admit of.
624 SlGGINS AND
As your petitioners have the pleasure to assure this hon-
orable board that the signing the articles aforesaid is be-
come very general in the City and District, and like to be
universal among those who have therefore associated, and
as the association is principally composed of tradesmen
and others who earn their living by their industry. They
do further pray this honorable board that such of them as
may be capable of performing such public works as this
honorable board may have in charge to see executed, and
have signed the Association aforesaid, may be employed
in preference to all others, and that such works may be
equally disiributed amongst the signers of the Association
as conveniently can.
The propriety of this application your petitioners humbly
conceive will speak for itself, and as they assure them-
selves that this honorable board will consider the associ-
ators who sign the articles of association as better to be
depended on and more worthy of encouragement than
those who do not, they take the liberty to request this hon-
orable board to shew them these marks of their favor and
countenance and your petitioners will pray, etc.
Signed on behalf of the Committee of Privates.
SAMUEL SIMPSON, Chairman.
Indorsed :
The petition from the Committee of Privates being read,
this board resolved that the matters therein prayed are
reasonable and proper and the Committee will pay due
regard to same."
(Pa. Ar. 2d S. Vol. I. p. 571.)
RECORDS OF SAMUEL SIMPSON.
"First Pennsylvania; Colonel Edward Hand; Assistant
Quartermaster-Samuel Simpson, April, 1777.
(Pa. Ar. 2d. S. X. p. 325.)
Other Families 625
"Samuel Simpson, Ensign Provinvial Regiment, Lan-
caster Co., Pa., May 25, 1748."
(Col. Rec. Vol. V. p. 247.)
(2263). SAMUEL SIMPSON 3 "of Abbington Town-
ship" Montgomery Co., Pa.; b. 1706; d. 1791; m. Hannah
. Children :
2272. i. JEAN (or JANE) Simpson 4 , b. abt. 1730; was
living 1791; m. about 1750, as his 2d wife
WILLIAM KINNEAR, son of James Kinnear,
they were among the ancestors of "The Kin-
nears and their KIN".
2273. ii. JOHN Simpson 4 , of Horsham Buck Co., Pa.;
b. 1732 ; d. 1804, in Bucks County, Pa. ; m. Nov.
25, 1762, Hannah Roberts, b. 1724, (according
to Christ Church Records in Philadelphia. He
was a delegate to the convention 1776, and
served with the Associators at Brandywine,
Germantown, and Valley Forge. Children:
2274. i. HANNAH Simpson 5 , m. Benjamin Hough.
2275.* ii. JOHN Simpson 5 , b. abt. 1760, in Tate
Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa.; d. in Ohio; m.
1st, Oct. 17, 1793, in Montgomery Co., Pa.,
Rebecca Weir, who d. abt. 1800; he m. 2d,
Sarah Haire.
2276. iii. MARGARET Simpson 4 , b. 1732; d. 1760; m.
Oct. 4, 1752, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS HARRIS.
They had two sons :
2277. i. JOHN Harris 5 .
2278. ii. SIMPSON Harris 5 , both of whom d. s. p.
626 SlGGINS AND
2279.* iv. SARAH Simpson 4 , b. 1734 ; m. abt. 1754, Col.
WILLIAM COOK, of the Revolutionary War—
their dau. Jane Cook 1 , b. 1759 ; d. 1844 ; m. abt.
1782, Samuel Davis.
2280. v. REBECCA Simpson 4 , b. 1736.
2281. vi. NATHANIEL Simpson 4 , b. 1740; m. Sarah
2282. vii. MARY Simpson 4 , b. 1741 ; m. 1780, ROBERT
TAGGERT, of Northumberland County, Pa.
(2275). JOHN SIMPSON*, "Of Tate Township" son of
John and Hannah (Roberts) Simpson, was b. abt. 1760; d.
in Ohio ; m. 1st, Oct. 17, 1793, in Montgomery Co., Pa., RE-
BECCA WEIR, daughter of a farmer of Warrington, or
New Britain; she d. abt. 1800; he m. 2d in 1803, SARAH
HAIRE. About 1819 John Simpson, removed with his fam-
ily, three daughters and one son, to Clermont County, Ohio ;
among them Hannah Simpson, who married Jesse Root
Grant in 1821. Mary (Simpson) Griffith was at that time
married and had several children, and was living in Cler-
mont Co., in 1884; was then 90 years of age. Children of
John and Rebecca (Weir) Simpson:
2283. i. MARY Simpson , b. Aug. 11, 1794; m. James
Griffith.
2284. ii. SAMUEL Simpson , b. Oct. 4, 1796; m. Eliza-
beth Griffith.
2285. iii. HANNAH Simpson , b. Nov. 23, 1798, at
White Marsh Montgomery, Co., Pa. ; d. May 11,
1883, at Jersey City, New Jersey; m. June 25,
1821, at Point Pleasant Ohio, JESSE ROOT
GRANT, b. June 25, 1794, in Westmoreland Co.,
Pa., and had 6 children, among whom was Gen-
eral U. S. Grant.
Other Families 627
Children of John and Sarah (Haire) Simpson.
2286. iv. SARAH Ann Simpson , b. Dec. 7, 1805; m.
James Ross.
(2279). SARAH SIMPSON*, b. 1734; m. abt. 1754,
Colonel William Cook, of Revolutionary War fame; their
dau. Jane Cook" 1 , b. 1759 ; d. 1844 ; m. atb. 1782, in Augusta,
Georgia, SAMUEL DAVIS, son of Evan Davis and his wife,
who was wid. of Joseph Emory and dau. of
Williams. Children:
2287. i. JOSEPH Emory Davis 5 , b. Dec. 10, 1784; d.
Sept. 18, 1870, in Vicksburg, Miss.; m. Eliza-
beth Van. Benthysen.
2288. ii. Dr. BENJAMIN Davis 3 , b. at St. Francisville,
La., d. s. p.
2289. iii. SAMUEL Davis 5 , a planter near Vicksburg,
Miss; m. Lucy Throckmorton.
2290. iv. ISAAC Davis 5 , a planter of Canton, Miss. ; m.
Susan Guerthy.
2291. v. ANN Davis 5 , m. Luther Smith, of West
Felicia.
2292. vi. AMANDA Davis 5 , m. Bradford.
2293. vii. LUCINDA Davis, m. William Stamps, of
Woodville, Miss.
2294. viii. MATILDA Davis 5 .
2295. ix. MARY Ann Davis 5 , m. Robert Davis, of South
Carolina.
2296.* x. JEFFERSON DAVIS 5 , President C. S. A. b.
June 3, 1808, Christian Co., Ky. (now Todd Co.) ;
d. Dec. 6, 1889, New Orleans ; m. 1st, 1835, Sa-
rah Knox Taylor, dau. of President Zachry Tay-
lor; d. Sept. 15, 1835; no children; he m. 2d,
Feb. 2, 1845, Varina Banks Howell, dau. of Wil-
liam Burr and Margaret Louise (Kemp) Howell.
628 SlGGINS AND
(2296). JEFFERSON DAVIS 5 , President C. S. A. mar-
ried Feb. 2, 1845, Varina Banks Howell. Children:
2297. i. SAMUEL Davis 6 , b. 1854; d. the same year.
2298. ii. MARGARET Howell Davis 6 , b. 1857 ; d. 1909 ;
m. Joel Addison Hayes of Colorado Springs,
Col., and had:
2299. i. JEFFERSON Davis Hayes 7 , now assist-
ant cashier of the First National Bank of
Colorado Springs, changed his name to Jeffer-
son Davis in honor of grandfather.
2300. ii. VARINA Howell Hayes 7 , m. Dr. Gerald
Bertram Webb.
2301. iii. LUCY White Hayes 7 .
2302. iv. WILLIAM Davis Hayes 7 .
VARINA BANKS HOWELL.
Varina Banks Howell, born May 7, 1826; married Feb-
ruary 26, 1845, Jefferson Davis, President of C. S. A.; she
was descended from the famous Howell family, whose
founders settled in New Jersey. Her grandfather, Gov-
ernor Richard Howell, was a Revolutionary, and her
father, Wiljiam Burr Howell, won distinction under Mc-
Donough on Lake Champlain Mrs. Davis' maternal grand-
father, James Kempt, was an Irish gentleman, who came
to Virginia after the Emmet Rebellion. He was a man of
much wealth and moved to Natchez, Mississippi. Colonel
Kempt organized the Natchez troops and accompanied them
during the Revolution. Mrs. Davis' uncle Franklin Howell,
was killed on the Steam Ship President. She died in 1906.
DAVIS FAMILY.
Three brothers, Evan, Joseph and Samuel Davis, emigrat-
ed from Cardiff Wales, in the early part of the eighteenth
century; Joseph was lost at sea; Evan Davis settled at
Other Families 629
Philadelphia, and later removed to Richmond County,
Georgia, where he married a widow, Mrs. Williams, whose
family name was Emory; she had two sons: William and
Isaac Williams.
SAMUEL Davis 1 , settled in the middle states.
EVAN Davis', b. abt. 1730, in Wales; d. abt. 1775, in
Georgia; m. Mrs. (Emory) Williams; they were
the grand parents of President Jefferson Davis, C. S. A.
(2285). HANNAH SIMPSON' 1 , (dau. of John and Re-
becca (Weir) Simpson) was b. Nov. 23, 1798 in Pa.; d. May
11, 1883; m. June 25, 1821, at Point Pleasant, Ohio.
2303. JESSE ROOT GRANT, b. June 25, 1794, Westmore-
land Co., Pa.; d. abt. 1874, in his 80th year.
Children:
2304. i. HIRAM Ulysses Grant 7 ; he changed his name
to ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT. He was b.
April 27, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Ohio; d. July
23, 1885, on Mount McGregor, near Saratoga,
N. Y.; m. Aug. 22, 1848, at St. Louis, Mo.
Julia Boggs Dent b. Jan. 26, 1826, dau. of Fred-
erick and Ellen (W T renshall) Dent, and grand
daughter of Col. George Dent, who led "the for-
lorn hope" at Ft. Montgomery, when it was
stormed by "Mad Anthony Wayne." Her mother
was a descendant of John Wrenshall, "who came
from England to escape religious intolerance,"
and settled in Philadelphia.
2305. ii. SAMUEL Simpson Grant 7 , a merchant at Ga-
lena, 111. : b. Sept. 23, 1825, in Georgetown,
Brown County, Ohio; d. Sept. 13, 1861, near St.
Paul Minn. ; unmarried.
2306. iii. CLARA Rachel Grant 7 , b. Dec. 11, 1828, in
Georgetown, Ohio; d. March 6, 1865 in Coving-
ton, Ky.
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630 SlGGINS AND
2307. iv. VIRGINIA Paine Grant 7 , b. Feb. 20, 1832, in
Georgetown, Ohio; d. March 28, 1881, in Jersey
City, New Jersey; m. May 13, 1869 Hon. Abel
Rathbone Corbin, of New York City, and later
of Elizabeth, New Jersey. They had one child
who d. in infancy.
2308. v. ORVIL Lynch Grant 7 , b. May 15, 1835. in
Georgetown, Ohio; d. Aug. 4, 1881, in Elizabeth.
N. J. ; m. April 1857, Mary Medary dau. of Ash-
er and Elizabeth Medary.
2309. vi. MARY Frances Grant 7 , b. July 28, 1839 in
Georgetown; d. Jan. 23, 1898, in Carlisle, Pa.;
m. Oct. 27, 1863, in Covington, Ky., Rev. John
Cramer; b. Feb. 6, 1835, at Hoher, Hallau.
Switzerland, near the falls of the Rhine, a son
of John and Magdaline (Bower) Cramer. Rev.
John Cramer, was Resident Minister to Den-
mark, 1870. Children:
2310. i. CLARA Virginia Cramer\ b. Oct. 17.
1864, Covington, Ky.
2311. ii. JAMES Grant Cramer 8 , b. Aug. 26, 1869.
(2304). PRESIDENT U. S. GRANT 7 , m. Aug. 22, 1848.
Julia Boggs Dent. Children:
2312. i. FREDERICK Dent Grant 8 , b. May 20, 1850,
in St. Louis, Mo.; d. April 12, 1912, in New
York City; m. Oct. 20, 1874, in Chicago, 111..
Ida H. Honore, dau. of Henry Hamilton Honore.
Their children were :
2314. i. JULIA Dent Grant', m. Prince Cantazune,
of Russia.
MIRIAM Grant'.
CHAFFEE Grant 9 .
ULYSSES S. Grant', the III. Captain in
the Corps of Engineers of the U. S. A.
2315.
ii.
2316.
iii
2317.
iv.
2318.
ii.
2319.
iii
2320.
2321.
iv.
2322.
2323.
2324.
Other Families 631
ULYSSES Grant, Jr. 8 , b. 1852, at Bethel.
JESSE Grant, Jr. 8 , b. 1858, in St. Louis, Mo.,
married and had :
CHAPMAN Grant".
NELLIE Grant s , b. 1855, in St. Louis, Mo.; m.
1st, Algeron Sartoris; she m. 2d, Frank H.
Jones, a banker of Chicago, 111. Children of 1st
marriage :
VIVIAN Sartoris 9 .
i. ROSEMARY Sartoris 9 .
ii. ALGERON Sartoris 9 , m. 1904, Mile. Ger-
maine Cecil Noufflard, of Paris. In 1917 en-
listed in the foreign legion, and was in train-
ing at L evallebonne; was later slightly
wounded while with the French Armies in the
field in 1918.
BISHOP MATTHEW T. SIMPSON.
One of the most distinguished members of the Simpson
family, was Bishop Matthew T. Simpson, who on account
of his devotion to the Methodist Church and the tenants of
its faith was styled "The Napolean of Methodism", we
trace his lineage from:
(2260). John Simpson, whose son:
(2262). Thomas Simpson, b. 1683, in Ireland, came to
America and settled in Pennsylvania, and his son:
2325. Thomas Simpson, was b. 1736, in Paxtang; his son:
2326. Thomas Simpson, removed to Baltimore, in 1793,
and thence, after 1800, to Jefferson County,
Ohio ; he married in Maryland, but name of wife
is unknown. Children:
632 SlGGINS AND
2327. i. ANDREW Simpson 1 , settled in Chillicothe,
Ohio.
2328. ii. JOHN Simpson"', settled in Washington Coun-
ty, Pa.; d. 1836, in Stock Township, Harrison
County, Ohio; married Margaret (or Mary) Mc-
Elroy, and raised a large family, most of whom
reside in Illinois. Among their children was:
2329.* JOHN Simpson' 1 , b. 1814; m. Margaret
Law.
2330. iii. MATTHEW Simpson 5 , b. 1776; settled in
Cadiz, Ohio; was a member of the Ohio Legis-
lature; d. 1874; unm.
2331. iv. MARY Simpson 5 , m. John Eagleson, and set-
tled in Harrison County, Ohio ; all of their fam-
ily, except two daughters died childless.
2332. v. WILLIAM Simpson"', settled in Waterford,
Erie County, Pa. ; died in the prime of life, leav-
ing several sons.
2333. vi. JAMES Simpson"', the youngest of this family,
died June 15, 1812, in Pittsburgh, Pa.; m. June
10, 1806, Sarah Tingley, b. May 23, 1781. (No.-
2349.) Children:
2334. HATTIE Simpson 15 , b. April 3, 1807; m.
in 1829, George McCulloch, a merchant in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
2335. ELIZABETH Simpson 11 , b. February 2,
1809 ; married Dr. Scoles, who became a
Methodist minister; she d. in 1833, and is
buried in the cemetery at Cadiz, Ohio.
2336.* MATTHEW TINGLEY SIMPSON' 1 , b.
June 21, 1811, in Cadiz, Ohio; d. June 18,
1884; m. November 3, 1835, Ellen H. Vern-
er, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
SIMPSON
SIMPSON COAT OF ARMS.
Other Families 633
(2336). BISHOP MATTHEW T. SIMPSON, was born in
Cadiz, Ohio, June 21, 1811. He was a delegate to the Brit-
ish Wesleyn Conference, which met in Berlin. He was a
close friend of President Lincoln, and was frequently sent
for to go to Washington, where his opinions and advice
were sought and often followed. Immediately after the
assassination of President Lincoln, Bishop Simpson was
summoned to Washington by Mrs. Lincoln to render such
service as he could to the stricken family. Then when all
was over and the remains of the Martyred President
reached the final resting place in Springfield, he preached
the last words over his friend. He was one of the Method-
ist pioneers, whose help in building up the country, and in-
stilling into the settlers principles of patriotism, along with
their tenets of Methodism, it would be hard to estimate.
He has been lovingly referred to as "The Napoleon of
Methodism". He was in England at the time of President
Garfield's death, and was called upon to speak at the
memorial meeting held in Exeter Hall, London. To this
day his address is referred to as the greatest one ever deliv-
ered in England, by an American. He died June 18, 1884.
Bishop Randolph S. Foster said of him in concluding his
funeral address, "There never has been a Bishop of any
Church who wielded so great an influence in National af-
fairs as Bishop Simpson has exerted, nor do I believe there
ever will be another who will exert so great an influence on
the nation as he."
(2329. JOHN SIMPSON', b. 1814; d. 1877; m. 1839.
Margaret Law, b. 1820; dau. of John and Bessie (Linn)
Law. Children :
2337. i. MARY Ann Simpson 7 , b. 1841; m. Joseph C.
Patterson.
2338. ii. MARTHA Simpson", b. 1842; m. Robert Bir-
ney.
2339. iii. MARGARET Simpson 7 , b. 1844: m. Francis
Welch.
634 SlGGINS AND
2340. iv. MATTHEW W. Simpson 7 , b. August 20, 1846 ;
was in Civil War; m. September 16, 1869, Re-
becca Birney, dau. of John Birney, of Tippe-
canoe, O.
2341. v. JAMES Simpson 7 , b. 1850.
2342. vi. HENRY Simpson 7 , b. 1851.
2343. vii. WILLIAM Simpson 7 , twin brother of Henry.
2344. viii. ELLA Simpson 7 , b. 1857.
2345. ix. HOMER Simpson 7 , b. 1860.
2346. x. FRANK Simpson 7 , b. 1861; m. December 7,
1883, Pheobe Taylor, b. 1865; dau, of Samuel
and Melissa (Laken) Taylor, of Tuscara County,
Ohio.
(Ref. Ohio Valley Genealogies, by Chas. A. Han-
nah.)
Other Families 635
TINGLEY FAMILY.
2347. JOSEPH Tingley 1 . a native of New Jersey; a Rev-
olutionary soldier; married, but name of wife
unknown; had a son:
2348. JEREMIAH Tingley-, a soldier in the Revolutionary
War; married, but name of wife unknown.
Children :
2349.* i. SARAH Tingley 5 , b. May 23, 1781, near Stony
Brook, about twenty miles south of Pearth Am-
boy, New Jersey ; m. June 10, 1806, in Jefferson
County, Ohio.
(2333). JAMES SIMPSON.
2350. ii. WILLIAM Tingley 3 , b. 1787, in New Jersey;
d. in Cadiz, O., 1863; he removed to West Vir-
ginia, and about 1806, to Cadiz, Ohio, where he
married: Rachel Paulson, b. in Maryland, 1789,
dau. of James and Rachel (Durbin) Paulson, of
Harrison Co., Ohio. Children :
2351. i. AMANDA Tingley 1 , b. 1816; d. 1888;
married: Sylvanus Wood, b. 1805; d. 1845;
son of James and Elizabeth (Steel) Wood,
from Washington County, N. Y., and had
Elizabeth Wood", who m. Andrew Henderson
Carnahan, and Tingley Sylvanus Wood 5 , who
m. Lenora Chestnut, and settled in Leadville,
Colo.
JOSEPH Tingley 4 , b. 1822.
JEREMIAH Tingley 4 , b. 1826.
TEMPERANCE Tingley 4 , b. 1830.
2352.
ii.
2353.
iii,
2354.
iv.
636 SlGGINS AND
ADDENDA
Father W. J. Dalton, of Kansas City, Mo., was intimately
acquainted with Frederick Siggins, of Sligo, Ireland. He
evidently belonged to our family, but nothing further could
be learned of him except that he was educated in a parochial
school and occupied many positions of trust in the Catholic
Church. His home until the war began was in Ballymote,
Sligo County, Ireland. He had a brother who was a lawyer
somewhere in Australia, and a sister living in Dublin. In
1917, Father Siggins was Superior of the Franciscan order
in England, Ireland and Australia.
The First Quarterly Conference of the Erie Circuit of the
Methodist Church was held at Meadville, Pa., August 15,
1812. The following minutes are of historic interest:
"A recommendation was received through Mr. Watts,
from James Allender's class in favor of Samuel Wilson, as
a proper person to preach the gospel.
Signed by the following persons, viz. :
James Dawson,
Isaac Connely,
John Siggins,
William Siggins,
George Siggins,
William Middleton,
\lexander McElhanv
"The character and usefulness of the preachers, exhort-
ers and class leaders were examined individually in confer-
ence, after which they adjourned.
Signed by order of conference,
William Connely, Secretary."
"On Monday, the 17th day of August, 1812, William Con-
nely was ordained a deacon in the M. E. Church, at the
aforementioned camp meeting, by the Rev. Mr. William Mc-
Kendree, Jr., Bishop of the said church in the presence of
the congregation.
"At the general conference of the M. E. Church, in May,
Other Families 637
1812, Erie Circuit becomes subject to the Western Confer-
ence, which commenced its session October 1st, the same
year."
"On July 3, 1818, William Carroll was ordained deacon in
the M. E. Church at Pithole, Venango Co., Pa., by Rev.
Robert R. Roberts, of said church."
"In 1821 the Conference resolved:
"We, the members of this conference, abstain from the
use of liquors in our homes as far as possible and on our
farms, and absolutely refuse to use it at logging bees, rais-
ings, public gatherings, or journeys, and to help carry out
this resolution amongst our brethren and neighbors."
Rev. J. N. Fradenburg.
(Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, May 26, 1904.)
Page 35 — The William Dawson mentioned in the last para-
graph is William Dawson (1106).
Page 59 — 3d paragraph should read: "His wife's name
was Ann, and in that house, in 1724, was born Arthur Hood,
that promising young officer of the Royal Navy, who was
drowned in the 'Pomona' in 1775. He was a son of Samuel
Hood, a purser in the Navy, and brother of Sir Samuel Hood,
K. B., H. P., etc., and of Alexander Hood, R. N."
Page 84 — 25th line, read "philanthropist."
Page 85 — 26th line, read: "pleased."
Page 92 — 5th line, 2nd paragraph, read : "mid-century
era."
Page 93 — Last 3 lines, 2nd paragraph: "in different por-
tions of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Indiana.
Signed Mrs. E. Harriet Howe."
Page 95 — Pheobe Dawson (1092). For ancestors of Jane
(Hunter) Siggins, see page 130.
Page 98 — Mary Parker", d. aged 1 year.
Page 102 — 7th line, read: "For her ancestry, see page
130."
Page 103 — (78) Andrew Jackson Siggins, one of the
best known residents of West Hickory, Pa., died at his home
June 11, 1918. His home place was the one in which he
638 SlGGINS AND
was born, June 12, 1845. He is survived by his wife, Emily
(Neil) Siggins and daughter, Alice New Siggins. The lat-
ter has been principal of the West Hickory schools for a
number of years.
Page 122— (139) Dr. George Siggins m. Elsie Edith
Ross, dau. of Oliver Perry and Sarah (Jones) Ross. Their
son, George Ross Siggins, was born April 19, 1914.
Page 124 — (52). "Four of his sons" should read: "Six
of his sons grew to manhood."
Page 132— (144). Read: "Hannah Melinda Allender
(1195)."
Page 133— (150). Read: "Alfred Allender (1197)."
Page 148 — (183) Mrs. Josephine (Siggins) Utter, dau.
of Orion Siggins (182), wife of Dr. Henry Edward Utter,
died Saturday, May 18, 1918, at Providence, R. I.
She received her early education at Beaver College, and
finished her studies at the Moravian Seminary at Bethle-
hem. She had been a consistent member of the Methodist
Church for a number of years ; was a member of the choir
and a teacher in the Sunday School. Her infant son, George
Herbert Utter, was buried with her. He was named for
his grandfather who was once governor of the State of
Rhode Island, and also served as a congressman from that
state.
Page 149— (187). b. January 5, 1860, refers to Frank
Allen Wheeler.
Page 151 — Read: "Mary Isham, dau. of William and
Katherine (Banks) Isham."
Page 184 — (325). Omit the two lines, beginning: "Bertha
Agrelius," and read them as the 4th and 5th lines in the
next paragraph.
Page 209— (426). Read: "m. 2nd Peter Smith (714)."
Page 216— (555) Mrs. Charles Rose, dau. of Hon. Will-
iam Whitfield and Lucy (Rowley) Connely, died suddenly
June 10, 1918, in Cleveland, Ohio, and was buried in Tidioute,
Pa., Thursday, June 13th. She had joined the Presbyterian
Church in Tidioute in 1894, but after her removal to Youngs-
ville, she united with the Methodist Church. She was active
in all church and Y. W. C. A. work.
Other Families 639
Page 265— (841d) Raymond Baird White enlisted in
the United States Naval Reserve Service at Municipal Pier,
Chicago, June 29, 1918, and expects to enter the Ensign
Training School in September.
Page 279 — (849) Jerry Lloyd Siggins left his home in
Twin Falls, Idaho, in June, 1917, to report for duty at Van-
couver Barracks, Wash., as an automobile mechanic to the
commanding officer of the military aeronautics corps.
Previous to his enlistment he had been foreman of the Wes-
tern Automobile Company at Twin Falls.
Page 291 — For ancestors of Sarah Magill, see page 304.
Page 363— (1095) Thomas Dawson, m. Hannah Con-
nely (956).
Page 387— (1288) Mrs. Byron J. Jackson (Anna Alduma
Mead), died in Youngsville, Pa., May 30, 1918.
Page 445 — (1564). Read: "Elizabeth Lamberton, who
m. perhaps Daniel Sillivant." (Savage.)
(1454). Read: "Bucks County, Pa."
Page 466— (1628) Allen Trimble m. Margaret McDowell,
dau. of Joseph and Margaret McDowell.
Page 556— Read: John Hubbard, born about 1620.
(1923) Margaret Hubbard, in some accounts
of the Hubbard family she is called Mary.
Page 571 — (1992) James Richardson was born Novem-
ber 7, 1803, not 1830.
Page 591— 2147a and 2147b are sons of 2146. Omit *
after 2147a.
640
SlGGINS AND
INDEX.
The figures following the names indicate the page numbers.
176, 34;
Dr. 299,
299, 302
John W... 185, 186 Alleine—
ACKLEY —
Joseph .
ACOMB —
James L.
302
Lillian .
Sareph (Oliver)
299
Acres —
Emily . .471,568
William 471, 568
Adams —
Ann Elizabeth. 44
Anne 344
Bessie 44
Bessie (Warren)
44 AlNSWORTH-
David 44 F. C, Col.
David, Jr. ...44 Albrecht —
Frederick W.T.45 Eugene 298
George . ... 44, 47 George, Rev. 298
Georgiana Emily Leila 298
44 Alcorn —
Jack 44 William . . . .306
Jane Kathleen Alden —
Maud 45 Timothy, Rev. . 37
John . 34, 44, 335 Aldrich—
Thomas 44 Cordelia 349, 354
William .. .33, 44 Isaac . . .349, 354
John William
183, 184
Otto 186
Peter 186
Ray V 186
Sarah Jane(Dem-
mon) 183, 184
Aiken —
Bertha 595
Clifford 595
Irene 595
Lula Nell ... 595
Mary 595
Paul 595
Zed 595
329
Adgate —
Thomas 191
Adkins —
Sarah
William 333,
354
:49
349,
Mable 591 Alexander-
Agnew— Archibald . . 28, 29
Alice 119 James A., Dr.. 29
Clarence 116, 119 II., King of Scot-
D. C, Mrs. . .116 land 152
D. Corbet 116,119 The Great. . .545
Ethel... 116, 119 Alfred—
Agrelius — The Great . . . 546
Alice Bertha Alger—
183,184,186,638 Madison. .25, 384
Charles 186 Alldritt —
Eugene 186 Capt 276
Frank 186 Allein —
Ina C 185 Joseph, Rev.. 274,
tsaac W. 185, 186 608
John 185 Richard 274
Edward . 416, 417
Allen —
, Mr 255
, Mrs 90
Abigail. .421,423
Abigail ( )
Mrs.. 425
Abishai. .419,432
Adam... 426, 429
Adoniram . . . 425
Ancestors . . .413
Andrew 455
Ann 425, 459,
460, 478
Ann { ) .415,
492
Ann Penn. . . .456
Anna 455
Archibald . . .461
Aretas 432
Aron 425
Aron C 427
Arthur 413
(Belding),
Mrs 432
Benjamin . . .421,
422, 424, 425,
430
Caleb. ..419, 421,
422, 423, 432
Cary 429, 430
Charles, Capt. 457
Charles Frank-
lin 427
Charles P 433
Chief Justice 456
Consider . . . .431
Cyrus 566
Daniel . . 429, 493
David ..421, 422,
423, 425, 426,
428, 429
Dr 458
Early Ancestors
413
Ebenezer 424, 493
Other Families
641
Allen — Cont.
Edward 411,417,
419, 420, 421,
422, 423, 424,
425, 431, 444,
445
Eliza (Clagett)
428
Eliza Sarah. .611
Elizabeth. . . 422,
424, 461, 455
459, 461, 466
Elizabeth (Flem-
ming) . . . .429
Elizabeth (Til-
ford) . 272, 566
Enoch... 419, 432
Ephraim . . . .424
Ethan. .426, 427
Ethan, Col. . . 428
Ethan, Family 497
Ethan, Gen. 415,
418, 419, 491,
494, 495, 499,
500, 501
Ethan Voltair 496
' Eunice 432
Eunice Lamber-
ton 419
Family. .418,491,
496
Family of En-
field and East
Windsor, Conn.
491
George. .414,415,
420, 433
Hannah 431,
492, 493
Hannibal . . . 496
Heber, Maj. 494,
498, 501
Heman. .418, 419,
420, 432, 494,
495, 497, 498,
501
Henry. . 255, 414
Hepzibah 424
Hester 493
Hugh. . .446, 447,
450, 458, 461,
518
Hugh, Lieut. 518
Ira 494, 495, 498,
501
Ira Hayden. .501
Ira, Maj. Gen. 501
Isabella ( )
415
James. .433, 446,
447, 450, 456,
457, 458, 459,
460, 461, 465,
467, 468, 469,
510, 516, 518,
566
James, Capt . . 482
James, Col.. .469
James Rankin 110
Jane ("Jean")
..459, 465, 466
Jemima 431
Joanna 424
Job 425
Joel 432
John. . .416, 418,
419, 421, 422,
423, 424, 425,
431, 445, 446,
450, 451, 454,
458, 461, 469,
492, 518, 566
John, Col.. ..611
John H 427
John Penn. . .455,
456
Jonah 426
Joseph. .418, 424,
425, 461, 491,
493, 494, 495,
497, 501
Joseph C, Hon,
420
Joseph E 496
Joseph W 433
Julia 433
Kimball,
Mrs 420
Lamberton . . . 432
Leah 151
Levi 494, 501, 508
Lineage 474
Lorain 496
Lothrop 422
Lucinda . . . .494
Lucius 432
Lucy. . .493, 494,
495, 498
Lucy Caroline 496
Lydia. .445, 493,
494, 497, 498
Malcolm. 462, 463
Malcom 488
Malcum.272, 274,
459, 460, 461,
462, 510, 566
Margaret . . . 455,
456, 459, 468,
469
Margaret (An-
derson) . .460,
465, 467, 468
Margaret (Eliz-
abeth) . . .456
Margaret (Peg-
gy) ..469, 481
Maria Juliet. .501
Martha 421, 423,
426, 431, 461
Marv...416, 419,
421, 423, 455,
456, 459, 469,
493
Mary Ann ... 496
Mary (Baker)
495, 501
Mary (Budd)446
Mary (Cunning-
ham) 461
Mary Elizabeth
110
642
SlGGINS AND
Allen — Cont.
Mary Melissa
(Moore) ..110
Mathew.418, 419,
501
Matthew ...413,
414, 416, 420
(Maynard),
Mrs 469
Mehitable . . .192
Mercy.. 425, 431,
432, 493, 497
Mercy (Wright)
493
Moses. .425, 461,
566
Nancy.. 459, 469
Nathaniel . . 423,
445
Nehemiah . .418,
445, 491, 492,
493
Obed 432
Obediah.415, 492
Pamelia . . . .496
— — (Poage),
Mrs 469
Rebecca. 459, 460,
461, 462, 467,
492
Record of Mar-
riages 489, 490
Rev. Dr 418
Richard.. 414, 423
Ruth 493
Samuel.. 414, 415,
416, 418, 419.
420. 421, 422,
423, 424, 425,
426, 432, 448,
491, 492, 493,
501
Samuel, Capt.
428, 429
Samuel C, Hon.
420, 421
Samuel Flem-
ming 426
Sarah.. 415, 421,
422, 424, 431,
433, 451, 459,
467, 469, 492,
494, 580
Sarah Ann.. 272,
273, 463, 470,
510, 565, 566
Sarah Jane. .424
Sarah (Kimball
or Kimble) 423,
424, 425, 431,
445
Sarah (Wood-
ford) 493
Silence 493
Theodore Free-
linghuysen 428
Thomas. 415, 416,
418, 419, 420,
422, 446, 450,
491, 492
Thomas Dawson
455
Timothy, Rev.. 20
William. 272, 414,
421, 422, 424,
431, 445, 446,
447, 450, 454,
456, 457, 458,
459, 461, 463,
468, 469, 491,
510, 518, 566
Zimri, Lieut. 494,
498, 501
Allender —
Alexander... 373,
374
Alfred . 133, 638
Alfred A. 374, 375
Ann 219, 373
Ann ( ) .373
Betsey 354
Clarence .... 375
Elizabeth 90, 333,
336, 354, 373
Emery 375
Hannah Melinda
132,137,374,638
James. .333, 354,
363, 373, 374,
636
Jay 374
John 144
John B 374
Joseph. ..131 354,
364, 373, 374
Leona 133
Leona May . . 375
Margaret M.
(Siggins) . 375
Martha 373
Mary 373
Mary Ann . . 374
Rachel Elizabeth
375
Ralph 374
Rebacca . . . .354
Thomas Whitfield
374
William 373
Alley n —
Samuel 418
Thomas, Sir. .418
Allyn —
Edward 413
John. Col.... 444
Martha 415
Matthew 413, 444
(or Allen), Mat-
thew 414
Matthew, Col..
415, 491
Thomas. 415, 416,
491
(or Allen)
Thomas. 413,414
William 413
Alpin —
King 359
Other Families
64:
Altenburg —
Ephriam . . . 195
Amberson —
Nancy 440
Anderson —
Andrew 458, 518,
519
Andrew, Col. 481
Ann . ..512, 513,
516, 522
Ann Clark. ..519
Anne 523,524,527
Arline 521
Betsv . .469, 481
Bridget .512, 513
Catherine. ..512
Cecilia.. 515, 517,
519
Charity 516
Charles.. 516, 517,
520, 521
(Clark),
Mrs 517
David . .514, 516
Edmund . . . .524
Edward 524
Edward Lowell .
516
Elizabeth .... 512,
513, 517, 519,
521, 522, 524
Elizabeth Clark
519
Emma 593
Family.. 511, 525
Family of Pen-
ley. Eng.. .512
Family of Vir-
ginia 515
Frances .512, 513
Frances Mar-
shall 520
Garland . . . .515
(Garland),
Mrs 515
George. .517, 522
George, Dr. . .518
(Golds-
borough) . .517
Henry. .512, 513,
524, 527
Henry, Sir . .512,
513
Hugh Roy... 520
Ina C 186
Irmingard . .521
James. .242, 515,
518, 519, 521,
522, 525
Jane. . .446, 447,
458, 522
Jean 518
Jean ( ) .518
John... 512, 513,
514, 516, 517,
518, 519, 520,
524
John, Capt. . .517
John Henry . . 593
Julius 524
Katherine . 512,
513
Larz 520
Lucelia Poin-
dexter .... 520
Lydia ..523, 524
Margaret. . . 446,
459, 460, 510,
512, 513, 516,
522
Maria Williams
520
Marriages . . . 526
(Marshall)
Mrs 517
Martha (Craw-
ford) 519
Marv ..511, 512,
513, 514, 515,
517, 521
Mary Louise. .520
Matthew ...511,
515, 51C, 517
Matthew Mar-
shall 520.
Nancy.. 51 9, 522
Nathaniel . .516
Nelson 514
Penelope 512, 513
Richard 512,513,
514, 515, 516
Richard Clough
517,519
Richard H.... 521
Richard, Sir. 509,
510, 511, 513,
514
Robert. .459, 510,
512, 513, 514,
515, 516, 517,
518, 519, 520,
521, 522, 524
Robert, Jr.. . .515
Sallie 519
Samuel 517
Sarah... 71, 513,
516, 522
Sarah Jane. .520
Saxon 522
Thomas 514, 521,
524
Thomas McAr-
thur 521
William. 512, 513,
517, 518, 519,
522, 524
William Mar-
shall 520
Andre —
Maj 311
Andrew —
Col 469
Andrews —
John 24, 379
John, Mai.. -.324
Robert 14, 27
William.. 409, 552
Anne —
Queen 275
644
SlGGINS AND
Anson —
Lord 61
Anthony —
9
Appleby —
Thomas 448
Appleget —
George 560
Arbuckle —
, Mr 468
Alexander W. 468
Argall —
Richard 543
Armstrong —
Barbara Ellen 157
Robert 157
Sarah (Harold)
157
Arnold —
— , Mr.. .196
Benedict . . . .453
Lettie 196
Arters —
Elizabeth 303
Art her —
Polly 31
Arthur —
, Miss . . .28
Susan 13
William. . .30, 31
Arundel —
Earl of. .504, 505
Asbury —
Bishop 368
Ash —
Arlington J. .587
Nadius Scott .587
Virginia Arling-
ton 587
Ashman —
, Mr 79
Ben. jamin H ... 79
Richard 79
Ashton —
Henry Alexan-
der 618
John 616
Atchison —
Nancy 233
Audubon —
142
August —
Bell 296
AURELIUS —
142
Austin —
Reuben 517
Ayer — .
John 395
Ayers —
John C 30
Babbercome —
John 66
Babbit —
J. L 406
Babcock —
, Mr 196
J. R 390
Samuel E 30
Badger —
Ira 176,323
Bagnall —
John 496
Mary 496
Bailey —
, Mr 134
A. R 240
George Melton
134
Joseph Wilson
134
Leona May . . 134
Baird —
Alfred T 78
Alma 79
Arthur 78
Benjamin. . .8, 78
Benjamin Hood
78
Charles . .... 97
Donald C 78
Edmund C. . . .78
Edmund J., Dr 78
Eliza Frances. 78
Everett 79
Fanny 210
Florence E 78
Frances. . .78, 79,
80, 81, 82, 83
Francis Siggins
ix, 8
Janie 82
Jennie 79
John Paul 97
Lydia 80
Mary 78
Mary E 78
Rachel 79
William Siggins,
Rev 79
Baker —
Anne 541
Catherine . . . 541
Cecilia 540
Edward 541
Elizabeth. . . 540,
543, 544
Family of Eng-
land 539
Henry 541
John. ..494, 541,
544
John, Sir 539, 540,
541, 542, 543
Katherine . . . 542
Lineage 542
Margaret . . .539
Mary- . .494, 497,
540, 541, 622
Richard 539
Richard, Sir 540,
541, 544
Thomas 539
Baldwin —
Count of Flanders
546
Baliol —
John 538
William 538
Other Families
64!
Ball —
, Mr 93
G. Y 405
Isaac 166
Mary 509
Sarah.. 93, 96, 166
Ballard —
F. W 149
Baltimore —
Lord 616
Bangler — ■
Arthur 297
Bangs —
Arthur C 278
Caroline (Craps-
ler) 278
Edward 278
Frederick A . . 278
James 278
John, Dr 278
Jonathan . . . .278
Oliver 278
Ruth Tisdale 278
Banks —
Gen 427
Banninc —
Alma Louise.. 606
Ashley 606
Benoni 604
Bertha Lucile 606
Caroline Agness
604
Cynthia Ellen 606
Cyrus Walker 606
Dorothea ... 605
Edith 605
Elizabeth (Black)
604
Elizabeth Mary
604
Ephraim, 604,605
609
Ephraim, Jr. 605,
609
Ephraim Pink-
ney 604
—42
Esther 605
Helen Ruth. .605
Hubert Ashley
.606
Hubert Charles
606
Hubert Temple
606
Jennie Malvern
606
John 604
Joseph Gilmer
604
Letitia Louise
604
Margaret Ellen
604
Martha Bell. .606
Pierson W. . .535
Pierson Worrall
. .605, 607, 609
Pinkney Asa. 604
Record 604
Samuel Walker
605
Sarah Louise 605
Thomas Allen 605
Thomas Ephraim
606
Thomas Gilmer
604
Walker 605
Barber —
, Miss. . . .51
Henry, Rev. ... 75
Moses 259
Rebekah .... 259
Rebekah (But-
ler) 259
William ... 74
Barclay —
Hugh 481
Bardwell —
Samuel 431
Barnard —
Samuel 493
Samuel, Capt. 424
Barnes —
, Miss.. ..576
Adam Clark. .150
Adelbert Wilson
121
Alice C 120
Bertha Anna 121
Dorothy . ... 337
Irma 150
Jane 118
Jane Young. . .85
Jane Y. Siggins
117
Nannie (Gar-
net) 150
William Calvin
120
Wilson C. 103, 131
Barnett —
CM 600
Stella 315
Barr —
Catherine (Shar-
row) 167
Henry Clay. .167
H. H., Rev... 167
Lenora 298
Marion 298
Peter 298
Raymond . . . 298
Barret —
George 540
Barris —
Joseph H 30
Barry —
Ann 469
Bartholomews —
Andrew. . .. .408
Barton —
John 449
Bash field —
Abigail 200
Bateman —
Amelia Ann. .64
Hugh, Sir 64
646
SlGGINS AND
BATTE —
Henry 529
Mary ( ) 529
Sarah 529
Thomas 529
Battle —
■, Miss. . .523
, Mr. . . .523
Baugh —
Ethel 480
Baynton —
Peter 450
Rebecca 450
Beach —
Elizabeth 64
William, Rev. . 58
Beaghan —
Edmund . ... 541
Edmund Stun-
gate 541
Beale —
John 64
Bean —
Abraham 121, 123
Albert 123
Alice 124
Belle 124
Catherine . . . 123
Daniel 123
Elizabeth . . . 123
Ellen 124
Family 123
Fayette 123
Henrietta 123
Henry 123
Ida 124
James 123
Jenny 123
John 123
Kirk 124
Laura 124
Margaret . . . 123
Mary. . .123, 124
Melissa .103, 121,
123, 132
Lincoln 124
Nancy (Whit-
ton) 121
Samuel 123
Warren 124
Beardsley —
William 398
Beatty —
Christiana . . .241
James 241
John . ...... .241
Beaty —
Abigail (Mead)
239
Albert Boone 243
Alice Abigail 243
Ann 241
Ann Townsend
243
Benjamin . . .242
Christiana . .241
Clark 242
David . . 16, 239,
242, 391
David Willis 239,
243, 244
Edgar Leidy..243
Elizabeth . ..241,
242, 243
Family 241
Francis 241
Helen 239
Helen Maude 243
James 242
Jane 242
John 241, 242
John, Sr. . . .241
Jonathan 242
Martha Susan
Mary. . .241, 242
Milton 239
Milton Jackson
243
Nellie 242
Orris Weston
16, 242
Robert 241
Robert, Jr.. . .241
Thomas. .16, 241,
242
Walter Weston
243
William 242
Beauchamp —
Catherine .... 596
Bebee —
Dr 494, 498
Beck —
Clara Mary. .584
Edward Scott
..583, 584, 585
Edwin 583
Lillian Sarah. 584
Martha Milton
583
Mary Hamilton
588
Mary Hamilton,
D. A. R. Rec-
ord of 588
Mary Hamilton
(Scott) . ...584
M. M., Capt..584
Moses Milton,
Capt 583
Thomas Milton
584
Thomas Reilly 585
William Thorn-
ton 583
William Thorn-
ton, Jr 584
Bedingfield —
Margaret .... 544
Beebe —
M. C 165
Beers — -
Capt 551
Beggs —
Adam 345
Belknap —
Abraham . . . 395
Hannah 395
Jeremy 395
Other Families
647
Belknap — Cont.
John 395
•Joseph 395
Mary 395
Robert, Sir. .395
Samuel 395
Bell —
Bettie 468
David 611
David S 467
Elizabeth ...408,
468
Elizabeth (Hen-
derson) ..467,
468
Francis .... 458
Henderson M. 468
James . .448, 459,
467
Jane 468
J. Franklin, Gen.
137
John 457
John J 467
Joseph.. 467, 468
Julia 468
J. Wayt 468
Lucy Pope . . . 574
Margaret 447, 468
Mary 468
Nancy 468
Rebecca . ... 468
Samuel 458
Sarah . . 467, 468
Susan. . .459, 468
Susan Pope.. .572
William, Maior
459, 468
William A., Col.
459, 467
William J. D. 468
Belnap —
Alton Reno. .396
Archimedes Mad-
ison 396
Austin Fletcher
396
Carra Myrtle 396
Druzilla.235, 256,
395, 568
Druzilla E...254,
470, 472, 567
Elizabeth (Mead)
235, 257, 383
567
Ezra 395
Family 395
NiramP 396
Philo Gurnsey
235, 257, 383,
395, 567
W. D 171
William D.... 396
Benner —
Clark 34
Bennet —
, Mr 603
Benton —
Jessie 215
Bere —
Anne 61
James 61
Berger —
Lillian 282
Berkley —
Lord 545
Berry —
George 34
Beverly—
William 475
BlDDLE —
, Mrs. ..312
Biggs —
Nancy.. 373, 374
BlGLER —
Ella 195
Flora 195
Nicholas .... 195
Birchard —
Anne Naome 375
Edgar 375
Edward . ... 133
Harold L. ...375
S. Autumn . .375
BlRNEY —
John 634
Rebecca 634
Robert 633
BlRTCIL —
Frank 349
George 349
Ida 349
Jerry 349
Ray 349
Black —
Catherine Louise
182
Charles 224
George 182
Harriet .221,227
Harry 224
Jeremiah S.,
Hon 341
Metta (Ackin)
182
William 224
Blackall —
John 614
Blackburn —
Thomas 484
Blair —
Hannah 338
Rebecca 359
Blake —
, Mr 197
Blakeman —
Cynthia 578
Blakesley —
Abigail O'Dell
182
Ann. ...178, 182
Benjamin Frank-
lin 182
Prudence ( )
405
Prudence A. .404,
405
Reuben 405
648
SlGGINS AND
Blanchard —
Judson, Capt. 166,
328
Blim —
Samuel 228
Blinn —
H. G., Rev... 180
Bliss—
R. C 215
Blodget —
Claude Raymond
.397
Daniel Archi-
medes 397
Jean 397
Lewis Wm. . .397
Marian Bernice
397
Percy Langdon
396
Rush M 397
Spencer Langdon
396
Stella Carra. .397
Ward Belnap 397
Blodgett —
Daniel 396
Lineage 398
Samuel 396
Solomon .... 396
Susan 396
Thomas 396
Blossom —
Frederick . . .216
William 216
Bohler —
Peter 9
Bole —
William J 382
Boli —
Flora (Jack) 278
Frank S 278
Rillia Vadia. .278
Bomar —
, Mr. ... 179
Alexander . . . 179
Emma R 179
George 179
Bond —
Henry, Dr.. . .409
Isreal 200
Bonner —
James, Capt.. .23,
378
Boone —
Daniel . . 272, 377,
558
Hannah.. 377, 390
Booth —
Judson 196
Lucy 196
Lyman 196
Bostocke —
Edmond .... 555
Bosworth —
Abigail 549
Haniniel (or
Haniel)
549, 553
Boutel (or
BOUTELL) —
, Mr. . 169,
295
Harold. .169, 295
BOWEN —
Arabell .261, 568
Robert 488
Bower —
Jacob, Capt.. .218
Bowers —
Pearl 352
BOWLE —
Henry 408
Bowman —
David 171
BOWYER —
Elizabeth . . . 512
Francis 511
John 511
William, Sir .512
BOYCE —
Belle Adelaide
401
Ethel Blanche
401
John Jay . . .401
John Jay, Jr. 401
Sally (Hay-
ward) . ..401
William . ...401
Boyd —
Florence . . . 296
Boys —
William, Dr. 466
BRaddock —
Gen 19, 310,
446, 458
Braden —
Sarah 133
Bradford —
, Mr. ... 627
Daniel 230
David 302
Livingston B.
Hunter . .230
Mary Hunter 230
Bradshaw —
Thomas . ... 276
Bradstreet —
Sarah 556
Brady —
Alfred Spates
227
Alfred Spates,
Jr 227
Nancy Caroline
227
Bragg —
Diddle 593
Brant —
Charles . ... 352
Bray —
Maria Sophia . 53
Thomas 63
Brayser —
Susannah . . 139
Breckenridge—
Alexander . .475
476
Robert, Maj. 476
Other Families
649
Breeding —
Ann 600
Beauford . ..600
Cassius . . . .591
Charlie .... 591
Clyde 591
Corbet 601
Eula 600
Finnis 591
Guy 591
Hulda 591
Hulda Jane. .591
Laura 601
Lora 591
Mabel 601
Mina 601
Porter 591
Raymond . . .601
Robert 601
Washington 590,
591
William . ... 600
Brent —
Theodore . . .261
Breunesholtz —
Mary 371
Brewer —
Asa 595
Brice —
John 428
Bridges —
Edmond . ..410
Bridport —
Lord.. 59,62,63
Viscount . ... 65
Brink —
Agnes 195
Alice 195
Andrew .... 195
Edna 195
Francis . ... 195
Harrison .... 195
Josiah 195
Porter 195
Brinkerhoff —
Abraham . . . 140
Broadhead —
Col 27, 29
Broadfoot —
, Mr. ... 290
John 341
Margaret . . .341
Broadus —
James 573
Brodrick —
Helen Eliza-
beth 441
Brondig —
John 448
Bronson —
Mary 495
Rev 368
Richard , . . 495
Brooks —
Eunice 113
Brown —
, Mr.... 197,
449, 518
Alexander 67, 416
Alexander, Capt.
338
(Ander-
son), Mrs. 518
Emerson Con-
nely 210
G. Clark . . . .210
Guy S., Rev. .298
H. H., Dr.... 167
Jean 483
John. . .176, 323
May 499
Wallace R. ..369
William . . . .451
BROYLES —
Margaret . . . 523
Bryan —
Robert 534
Bryce — -
Providence
(Dorsey) .426
Buccleuch —
Duke of 545
Buchanan —
President . . .341
Buchanen —
Capt 495
Budd —
, Mr. . . .451
Ann 449
Ann ( ) 449
Anne . 449, 450
Catherine ( )
449
Elisha 449
Family 448
Gilbert, Col. .449
Gilbert, M. D. 449
Hannah 450
Hetty 449
James 449
John . .448, 450
Jonathan . . .449
Joseph. .448, 449
Joseph Nicholas
449
Martha ( )
445, 450
Mary. . .445, 449,
450, 451
Merriam . . .449
Ophelia . . . .449
Pheobe 449
Rose J 450
Sarah . . . 449, 450
Sarah ( )
449
Susannah ( )
450
Tamar. .449, 450
Thomas. 445, 450.
451
Underhill . . .149
Buel —
Parker 30
Bull—
Sarah 189
BURBANK —
Dianah 203
650
SlGGINS AND
BURBRIDGE —
Marcia 515
Burd —
Edward 453
BURDICK —
Myrtle 119
B urges —
James 393
Burgess —
Thomas . ... 395
Burgoyne —
General 148
Burke —
Governor . . . 358
Richard . ... 492
BURKETT —
Jennie 286
BURNALL —
Ethelyn . ...352
Luella 352
Burnett —
, Mrs. ...48
Burns—
J. P., Rev.... 205
Robert 142
Robert, Ma j.. 4 87
BURRELL—
James P. . . . 587
Burrows —
Alice Winefred
281
Loren Gilbert
280, 281
Robert Chaffee
281
Burt —
David . .424, 492
Ruth 492
Bush —
, Mr. ...178
Crean 495
George, Capt.
610
Bush nell —
Abigail. 188,189,
192
Alburn 195
Alexander . . 193,
195
Alice ..193, 196
Amasa 194
Amasa, Jr. . . 194,
195
Amelia 197
Asa Smith . . 192,
193
Ashbel 194
Betsey 194
Carrie 195
Celia 195
Charles 195
Chauncey . . . 196
Chauncey S. . 194
Clarisy . ...197
Daniel .189, 192,
194, 195
Delos 195
Dr 436
Ebenezer . . . 189
Edith 195
Edna 195
Edward Har-
wood . ... 193
Eletra 195
Elias . . . 195, 197
Elizabeth . . . 189
Ella 197
Elmer 196
Elvira 195
Elzer 195
Ephraim 189, 193
Esther 189
Eunice 195
Family 191
Fannie Ludlow
193
Francis. 188, 190,
191, 194
Frank 197
(Gates),
Mrs 197
Gordon 195
Hannah 189, 194
Harriet . ...197
Harriet Elmina .
193
Hepzibah . . . 189
Ida 197
James... 194, 195
James Jason.. 193
Jason 192
John 188
John, Jr 193
John, Sr 188
John Handley 193
John Ludlow 193
Jonathan . . . 189
Joseph. .191, 192
Joshua 188
Josiah. .189, 193,
194 195
Judeth..l88, 189
Judson 196
Julia 195
Kate 195
Linnie 195
Lorin 196
Luella 195
Lyman 195
Martha 190
Martin 197
Mary . . . 189, 190
Mayette . ... 195
Melzer 195
Mertie 197
Nancy. ..194, 195
Nathan.. 192, 193
Nathaniel . . . 189
Phineas, Sergt.
193
Priscilla . ... 189
Prudence 194, 196
Rebeka..l88, 189
Records . ... 188
Richard 190, 191
Samuel. .188, 189
Sarah 189
Saraw 190
Stanley 196
Stella 195
Stephen . ... 188
Other Families
651
Bush nell — Cont.
Thomas . ... 188
Will 188
William 188, 189,
195
William, Lieut.
189, 190
Butcher —
Edmond .... 554
Butler —
, Mrs. . . 594
Ann Eliza. . .611
Cyrus, Rev. ..217
Elizabeth . . .617
George 74
James 617
Margaret 56, 508
Nathan, Lieut. 596
Pierce 611
Pierce, Capt. 611
Thomas . . . .617
William . ... 508
Byron —
Lord 142
Cady—
Benjamin . . .202
Calbeck —
Elizabeth . ... 40
Caldwell —
Annie 487
J. A 35
John 525
Calhoun —
Kittie 523
W. O., Rev... 146
Callander —
Ann 310, 311, 312
Robert 310
Calvert —
Leonard . . . .616
Camp —
Irwin, Col. . . 439
John 383
Campbell —
Ann 488
Arthur. .486, 488
(Bell),
Mrs 483
Capt 465
Catherine . . .4S3
Cecelia Ann. .483
Col. . ..465, 559
Cyrus 162
David . .486, 488
Eliza Ann . . .162
Ella 161
Ella May 162
Family 161
Francess .... 483
Gustavus Brown
483
Isaac 483
Isaac, Rev. . . 482
James. .162, 483,
488
Jean 483
John 161,270,486
John, Lieut. .500
John, M. D...483
Joseph 161
M ..525
Margaret . . . 488
Martha . ...488
Mary 488
Nancy (Story) 162
Patrick . ... 488
Polly 31
(Randolph),
Mrs 483
RichardHenry483
Robert .458, 488
Robert S 162
Sarah 488
William . 483, 488
Cannon —
, Mr. ..402
Cantazune —
Prince 630
Carey —
Sylvester . ... 30
Carlisle —
Lieut-Col. . . 596
Carnahan —
Andrew Hen-
derson . . .635
Carney —
Eleanor . . . .233
Elizabeth . . . .41
Carothers-^
James 559
Carpenter —
Frank 145
John . ... 68, 69
Samuel 68, 69
William 30
Carr —
Ann 383
David 30
Carrie —
Agnes A 405
Carroll —
William . ... 637
Carson —
F. C 116
F. C, Mrs... 116
Frederick ... 120
Goldie ..116, 120
J. G 146
Josephine 116,120
Lewis 116
Louis 120
Pearl 120
Carter —
Abigail 113
Almond F. . . 109
Baryallai . . .114
Charles 114
Clarissa .... 108
Clarissa Martin
102, 109, 115,
131
Cyntha .... 603
Daniel 113
Deborah . . . .113
Dr 113
Ebenezer . . . .113
Eleazar . . . .113
Ezra 113
Family 112
652
SlGGINS AND
Carter— Cont.
Joseph, Capt. 114
.Joseph Trum-
bull . .108, 115
Judith 113
Mary 113
Mary (Dalton)
113
Olive Fuller.. 108
Samuel 113
Theophilus . 113
Thomas 113, 114
Thomas, Rev.
. .112, 113, 114
Timothy . . .113
W. H., Gen.. .137
Carter-Brown —
John 614
Carteret —
Caroline .... 538
George, Sir 538,
545
Cartwright —
Estella 591
H. L 591
Mason Breeding
591
Caruth —
, Mr. . ..524
Louisa 524
Cary —
Anne 192
Henry 611
Judith 611
Case —
Ada 386
Ada L 386
Frank 386
Catesby —
William . .. .502
Catlin —
Dora 589
Guy, Mrs. . . .494
Moses 494
CATLINE —
Margaret . . . 502
Robert 502
Catlyn —
Mary . . . 503, 509
Robert, Sir 503,
509
Cawthorn —
Catherine . . . 151
Emeline .... 151
James 151
Richard 151
Chadwick —
Alma 216
Edward . . . .216
William . . . .216
Chaffee —
Alice Bell ..280,
281
Alice May ...281
Amy Irene . .280
Clara M. 280, 281
Fannie .280, 281
Henry George
280, 281
Leander A. .235,
280
Mary D. 280, 281
Chamberlain —
Luther, Dr. . . 283
Chambers —
James, Col... 218
Champion —
Thomas 66
Champlin —
Delia 197
George 197
Chandler —
John 30
Chapin —
Elder 91
J. E., Rev 98
Chapman —
Louise 240
Charlemagne —
546
Charles —
1 513
IT 64
XIV 186
Edward . . . .360
Chase —
Amelia 215
Ann Eliza. . .215
C. Emerson. .215
O. F. ...352, 353
O. F., Mrs. . .xi
Oliver 355
Oliver F. . . .215
Oliver G. 207, 215
Walter 215
CHAT'CER —
Geoffrey .... 555
Chedworth —
Lord 153
Chess —
Luella 437
Chestnut —
Lenora 635
Chipman —
Mable Cleo. .250
Martha (Davis)
250
Mary E. 250, 253
Myrtle M. ...250
Norman . . . .250
Watson B. . .250
Watson B.,
Mrs 249
Chiswell — «
Miss 577
Christian —
Clara M. . . . 186
Church —
• Alfred 195
Martha .... 195
Olive 195
Rav 195
Rose 195
Churchill —
Alice 139
Anne 139
Annie 139
Armistead . . 140
Benjamin . . . 139
Other Families
653
Churchill — Cont.
Benjamin Phil-
lips 139
Caroline (Mc-
Masters) .138
Catherine ... 139
Charles . ... 139
Demarius . . . 139
Edward .... 139
Family . ...139
Frank 139
Gardner A. . . 140
George 139
Henry. 138, 139
Henry Mortimer
139
Herman . ... 139
Isaac . ..139, 140
John.... 139, 140
John S 139
John S., Mrs. 140
Jonas 139
Joseph 139
Judith 151
Katherine . .139
Katie 139
Lavina 139
Leatha Estell 138
Lillie 139
Mary 139
Morgan Neeley
139
Nancy' ..... 139
Pheobe 139
Polly 139
Randolph, Sir 140
Rebecca .... 139
Reuben 139
Richard .... 139
Richard John 140
Robert 139
Rossell 139
Susan 139
Walter Scott 138,
139
William, Col.. 140
William,Lieut.l39
Winston .... 1 10
Winston, Sir. 140
Clagett —
Darius 426
Eliza 426
Claire —
H. H., Rev... 348
Clark —
Ann 519
Charles B....121
David 242
Dona Virginia
121
Elizabeth (Mc-
Mullen) ...286
George Rogers
519
James 355
Jennie . .133, 141
John 286
Judson 123
Marie Barnes
121
Mary 242
Rev 171
William 48
William S. ..286
W. S., Mrs. .284,
285
Clawson —
Charles Hamil-
ton Ill
Louise Gertrude
Ill
Rhoda J.
(Smith) . .111
Claybourne —
William . . . .616
Cleary —
Ann Sullivan 460
Walter Warden
460, 479
Clem —
Clara 179
Cliborne —
Janet 516
C LINGER —
William Floyd
299
Clinton —
Henry
.241
James
.241
Clough —
Annie (Poin-
dexter) . .
.516
Elizabeth . .
.516
Richard . . .
.516
Clyne —
Caroline . .
.212
COATES
Leona .. .183
, 188
Cobb— •
, Mr. .
.383
Annie
.601
Corine . ...
.602
Daisey ....
.602
Elbert ....
.601
Harvey ....
.601
Herchel . . .
.601
Rosy
.602
COBERN —
Theodore . .
.246
Cobham —
George, Col.
.147
Cochran —
Samuel ....
.436
William . . .
..30
Cochrane —
Eliza
.224
Henry ....
.224
James.. .220
224
Codd —
Margaret . . 3
9, 76
Cody —
Nicholas . . .
.398
Coe—
John
.448
COFFINGWOOD-
Miss
.354
Cogswell —
Elizabeth 286,287
Robert . . .
.Ml
654
SlGGINS AND
Coleman —
William . ... 449
Coles —
Robert, Rev. 273,
470
Collins —
, Mr. ... 477
Nathaniel . . .202
Phillip 67
T. D 146
Tirzah 203
COLQUOHOUN —
Christian . . . 484
Colton —
Deborah . ..201
Combs —
Alice 212
Bessie 213
Ella 213
George 213
Isabel 213
Joseph 212
Kate 212
(Parker),
Mrs 213
CONANT —
Harvey 238
CONARD —
Elizabeth ... 338
Henry 338
Jane (Stroud) 338
Con klin —
, Mr 33
CONLEY —
Constantine, Jr.
358
Rebecca J. (Mc-
Carty) . ..358
CONNELLEY —
Constantine .359
Connelly —
Edmund 356, 358
Ella Mead... 388
Family 356
Fletcher .... 355
George 354
Hannah . . . .354
(or Connelley),
Henrv..356, 358,
359
Henry, Capt. 357,
359, 360
Isaac. . 218, 353,
354, 355
James L., Judge
36, 162, 165,
170, 333
John... .356, 358
Mary 354
Nancy. .333, 354
Polly 355
Rachael . . . .355
Rebecca. 354, 355
Sarah . .322, 354
355
Susan . .218, 354,
355
(or Connelley),
Thomas 356, 358,
359
Whitfield ...355
William 36, 353,
354, 355
(or Connelley),
William Elsey
357, 358, 359,
360
CONNELY —
Amedia .337, 352
Austin Monroe
336
Austin Warner
337
Charles 144, 337,
345
Clarence Mor-
lev 337
Edith A 216
Eliza ..333, 354
Elizabeth ..207,
336, 339, 341
Elizabeth (Al-
lender) . ..341
Ella ("Lola")
Elnora . . .216
Family . . 206, 332
Flora Adaline 216
Frank Harold 337
George, Dr. . . 333
Hannah 333, 363,
364, 639
Helen E 215
Herbert Lee. 337
Ida M 216
Isaac. 78, 90, 332,
334, 335, 336,
352, 636
Isaac, Judge 206,
210, 334
James .170, 333,
352
James A. . . .352
James A., Mrs.
352
James Findlev
336, 337
James Fletcher
247
Jane 333, 354
John Fletcher
207, 214
Judge 170
Kenneth Austin
336
Leon Sidney 215
LeslieHerbert336
Lucy (Rowlev)
638
Marriage Rec-
ords ..361,362
Martin . . . .352
Martin Harrison
336
Mary . .333, 336,
337
Mary (Polly)
207, 215
Newton J 215
Orlin 352
Rachel 213
Other Families
655
CONNELY — Coilt.
Rachel Hemp-
hill ..336, 346
Rebecca. 207, 210,
211, 333, 334,
336, 373
Reunions . . . 352
Robert.. 333, 334,
354
Ruf us Newton 215
Sarah .207, 333,
335, 349
Sarah (Siggins)
210, 218
Sidney Samuel
215, 388
Stella (Barnett)
345
Susan. .207, 209,
219, 333
Wales 352
Wales, Mrs. .352
William 333, 334,
335, 336, 341,
345, 347, 352,
373, 636
William, Rev. 30,
31, 237, 334
William A... 352
William Mc-
Calmont ..345
William Whitfield
206, 207, 215,
217, 638
Willie 347
CONNINGHAM —
Alexander . . .485
Converse —
John K., Rev. 433
Cook —
, Mr. ... 100
Capt 63
Jane 626, 627
William, Col. 626,
627
COOLEY—
Egbert . . .
.181
Elizabeth .
.181
Laura M. .
.181
Margaret .
.202
Permelia S.
.297
Cooper —
Tobias . ..
..66
Coover —
Mary
.389
Cope —
Anthony, Sr
. .56
Thomas, Jr.
.444
COPELAND —
, Mrs.
.613
H. P., Dr...
.352
H. P., Mrs
.352
Parkhurst .
.333,
334
Phylis ....
.352
Ralph, Mrs..
.352
CORBETT —
Thomas, Rev. 556
CORBIN —
Abel Rathbone,
Hon
.630
CORDER —
Lucy
.282
Margaret . .
.152
Corey—
M. G., Capt..
.117
Cornelius —
Abigail . . .
.336
Cornell —
J. S
.382
Cornet —
William . . .
.564
CORNPLANTER-
Chief. .17, 18,20,
21, 22
(Ga-nio-di-euh),
Chief . ..
..19
Jesse
..23
CORNWALLIS —
Lord . ... 17
, 562
Thomas, Capt.
.616
COTTINGWOOD —
, Miss. . .333
Elizabeth ...336
Cotton —
John, Rev 556
Sarah 556
Coulter —
Thomas ..33, 228
Courson —
Anthony . ... 34
John f 34
Cowan —
Ephriam . . .400
Malvina 16
COWLY —
Thomas .511,513
Cox-
Frances . ... 600
Coxe —
Daniel, Col... 455
Marie 455
Mary (Francis)
455
Sarah 455
William . . ..455
Crabtree —
Sallie 600
Craft —
Anna 442
A. N., Rev... 147
George L. . . . 442
James N. . . .441
Craig —
, Mr. . . . 487
Agnes ..518, 521
James . . 447, 468,
518, 521
Jane (Ander-
son) 447
John, Rev. . .522
Joseph M. . .566
Margaret . . .467
Mary 518
Mary (Laird)
...518, 521
656
SIGGINS AND
Craig — Cont.
Pattie E. . . .611
William 447, 458,
461, 518
Crain —
George 339
Cram —
Jacob, Rev. . .237
Cramer —
Clara Virginia 630
James Grant 630
John 630
John, Rev.. ..630
Magdaline
(Bower) . .630
Crary —
Esther (Stone)
114
James 114
Mary 114
Crawford —
, Mr. ...477
Alexander . . .519
Ann ("Nancy")
467
Elizabeth 467,476
Fannie 230
George W. . . 467
James 468
James, Maj. .467
Jane (Kerr) 342
Jessie B. . . .342
John 30, 33,
228, 458, 460,
467, 468, 481
John, Major 459,
460
Margaret . . .467
Martha .481, 518
Marv 467
Patrick .459, 518
Polly 469
Rachel 481
Rachel (Leslie)
519
Rebecca 460, 467
Robert H. ..571
Sally 467
Sally (Mead) 459
Sally (Wilson)
518
William . ...519
William R.. .342
Criswell —
Miss 559
Crocker —
Emma J 582
Cromwell —
Oliver ..132, 419
Crosby —
David 516
Croshaw —
Joseph, Mai. 413
Unity 413
Crotty —
Lawrence . . .480
Crull —
Emanuel 176, 323
CULBERTSON — ■
Polly . .290, 291
CULPEPER —
Alexander . . . 544
CUMBERLANE> —
Jane 162
Cum mings —
Charles, Rev. 557,
559, 560
Donna Anna 240
H. H., Capt. 260,
301
Jessie Winona
336
Samuel. Rev. 608
Sarah McKay
(Weld) ...240
Washington
Parker . . . 240
Cunningham —
Alexander . .484,
486
Charles Edwards
483
Cuthbert 485, 486
Elizabeth .. .487,
488
Family 485
George Farlev
483
Hugh 488
Isaac 488
Isabella 487
James . 459, 482,
485. 486, 488.
510, 562
Jerry. . .279, 473
John. . .485, 487,
488
Josephine (Bal-
lard) 279, 473
Lilias 484
Margaret ... 488
Margaret ( )
457, 510
Martha 486
Mary ..459, 488,
510
Moses 488
Nellie. .256, 279,
473, 568
Rebecca Janet
484
Robert. .486, 487
Walter, Capt. 487
William 436, 484
William, Sir 483
484
CURRIE —
Joshua F. 171, 175
CURRIN —
Jane 564
Curry —
Jane 71
Robert 71
Curtis —
C. P> 34
Ruth.. . .114, 377
CUSTIS —
Daniel Parke 509
Other Families
657
Cutter —
William Richard
140
Dabney —
Ann 517
Mary 516
Dagnall —
, Mr. . .512
Dale —
Gaylord . ... 229
James 229
Jesse 35, 367
Marion W. ... 35
Mary (Lamb)
35, 367
Nancy. . .35, 364,
367
Rev 160
Sarah A 35
William 228, 229
Dalson —
Elitia 54
John 54
Dalton —
Mary 113
W. J 636
Dalzell —
Amanda . . . .244
David Beaty 244
Helen Patricia
244
William Fred-
erick 244
William R. B. 244
Dana —
Rachel 202
Dandridge —
John 509
Martha 509
Darnell —
Dorothy Wins-
ton 597
Elizabeth . . .581
James Samuel
597
James Samuel,
Jr 597
Milton Thorn-
ton 574
Warren .... 574
Dasey —
Capt 559
Davenport —
Sarah E. 479, 481
David —
I. of Scotland 546
Davidson —
Daniel D 30
Davies —
Samuel, Rev. 429
Davis —
, Mr. 16, 239
, Mrs. . . 558,
564
Abraham. 30, 404
Amanda .... 627
Ann 627
Ann Devendorf
404
Ashel 405
Beckie Pajan 312
Beniamin . .561,
562
Benjamin, Dr.
627
Charles 561
Charles L. . . 405
Darius 404
Desiah (Little)
383
Diannah . . . 562
Elijah ..30, 383,
404
Elijah H 404
Elizabeth . . . 561
Elsie 404
Evan . . .627, 628,
629
Family.. 404, 628
Family of Spott-
sylvania Co.,
Va 561
Felix 561
Fielding . . . .561
Grace 406
Homer F. . . .406
Isaac . . . 176, 627
James. . .28, 30,
404, 561, 562
James Quentin
.312
Jefferson . 83, 583,
627, 628, 629
Joe 406
John . . .404, 562
John W 405
Joseph 628
Joseph Emory
627
Larkin .558, 561,
562
Laura A. . . .405
Laura (Little-
field) 406
Lucinda . . . .627
Margaret . . . 478,
487
Margaret How-
ell 628
Martha .... 250
Marv 561
Mary Alice .406
Mary Ann ... 627
Matilda 627
M. B., Mrs. ..231
Meeda (Root)
406
P. Filmore . .405
Reuben P. . . 405
Robert 627
Robert E. . .405
Samuel 626, 627,
628, 629
Sarah 388
Snead 561
Susan . .382, 383,
404
Susan H. ...405
Susan Whitney
404
Susannah . . .562
658
SlGGINS AND
Davis — Cont.
Thomas 561, 562
Walter 486
Walter, Jr. ..487
Walter, Sr. ..487
Walter L. . . . 406
Willard J. ..405,
• 406
William 30, 487,
561, 562
William A ..404,
405
William C. . .487
W.J 171
Dawson —
, 366
Asbury .354, 364
Caroline 354, 365,
367
Elizabeth 90, 363,
364, 369, 374
Emeline Ross 369
Emily 366
Emma 368
Family 363
Fletcher 144, 365,
369
Frances 368
George Smith 365
Hannah. .90, 354,
365
Hannah Connel-
ly 35
Hannah Emeline
367
Harriet 354, 365,
369
Hemphill ...354
Henry ..369, 370
Isaac... .354, 367
Isaac Uans . . 364
Isabelle .... 365
James .354, 363,
365, 636
James, Jr 90
James, Sr. ... 90
James C. . . .366
James Guest. .35,
364, 367
Jesse D. 367, 368
John . .354, 363,
365, 366, 369
John G 366
John Wesley. 364,
368
Joseph Hemp-
hill . .364, 365,
366, 370
Josephine G. .369
Lillian 365
Maria Harriet
367
Martha .... 363
Marv ..363, 365,
367, 369
Melvina Clarissa
366
Olive 369
Orion 364
Pheobe 78, 87, 90,
95, 363, 637
Rachel ..96, 147,
354, 365
Rachel Josephine
367
Rebecca . . 95, 96,
354, 363, 364,
374
Sarah ( )
364
Susan 354
Susannah 364,368
Thomas . .35. 90,
163, 333, 354,
363, 364, 367,
554, 639
Thomas Wurtz
.....367
Walter R. ...367
William .35, 144,
354, 364, 637
William Ross 144,
369
William S. ..367
Willis 365
D'Aygnel —
John 511
Dean —
Dancy 519
Dean*: —
Charles 614
De Celeron —
12
Degge —
Stanton, Rev. 542
De Grasse —
Count 61
DE HONEY —
Miss 591
De Hoo—
Alexander . . . 152
De Hority —
J. H 150
Lillie 150
De Huse —
John 152
De Kyner —
Symon 232
William . ...232
De la Callisso-
NIERE —
13
DEL A MATER —
George B. . . .254
De Lamberton —
John 435
De Lancey —
James 456
Del mar — ■
Harrv 208
William . ...208
De Long —
Syrus 298
Demmon —
Sarah Jane .186
Denman —
William . ...261
Dent —
Ellen (Wren-
shall) . ...629
Frederick . . . 629
Other Families
659
Dent — Cont.
George, Col.. .629
Hatch, Rev.. .483
Julia Boggs . .
629, 630
Denton —
Ward 590
Deowe —
James 66
De Place —
Capt 499
Depree —
Hugh 377
Dereham —
John, Sir 572
Derham —
Thomas, Sir.. 572
De Rocher —
, Mrs.. . .354
Bertha 350
Daniel 223
Dorothy Jean.350
Henry 350
Klahre 350
Lillian 350
Maud 350
Devereux
(or Devereau) —
Peter 408,409,552
Devorgilda —
152
Devorgille —
545
Dewey —
George, Admiral
137
Dewy —
Mary 439
Diana —
Edith 172
Dibble —
Joannah.422, 424
Samuel 424
Dickey —
John, Capt.. .458
Violet M 307
Dimond —
Asa Bushnell.193
Douglas Mar-
quand . . . .193
Henrietta . . . 193
Henry C. . . . 193
DlNGMAN —
Elizabeth Ellen
(Harding) 279
James Wilson.279
John Siggins.279
John Vance . . 279
Nellie May.. .279
Dinly —
Elizabeth . . .540
Thomas . ... 540
Disbrow —
Peter 448
Dixon —
., Mr 44
B. W 593
Harry 593
Mildred .... 593
Dodd —
Alden 37
Levi 37
Dodge —
Charles E.. . .308
Charles W., Dr.
308
Governor . .272,
567
DODSON —
Jarvis 617
Doggett —
G. O., Dr.... 591
Dohoney —
Harriet 578
Donald —
John A 261
Donaldson —
Isaac 100
Nancy 100
DORMAN —
James B. Mai. 487
Dorset —
Lord Treas.. .540
Doty —
Robert 384
Dougherty —
George 488
Douglas —
James 530
Mary Ellen. .279
Thomas James
279
Dow —
Henry 410
(or Dowe), Mar-
garet.. 408, 410
Dowel —
John 541
John Baker .541
John Baker
Bridges . .541
Dowling —
Addison McCabe
582
Alexander Scott
582
Cornelia Stewart
582
Henry W 582
DOWNIE —
James 571
Downs —
Edna 593
James 593
Nellie 593
Richard . . . .593
Drake —
D. L., Col 36
Dravo —
Emery L., Lieut.
240
Drury —
Elizabeth (Staf-
ford) . ...544
William, Sir.. 544
Dryden —
Bridget 546
Erasmus, Sir 546
John 546
660
SlGGINS AND
DUANE —
William, Col.. 344
Dudley —
Thomas . ...555
DUFFIELD —
W. W., Col.... 48
Duncan —
Sallie 559
Sarah Wood . 577
Dunham —
Johnston . . . .85
M. E 240
P., Lieut. ...382
DUNLAP —
L. G. C 333
Dunn —
Jeremiah . . . .34
Dutch — ■
Robert 411
Dwight —
Helen Kirby.134
M. E 134
R. E., Mrs... 136
Richard Everitt
134
Dymond —
John 199
Rachel 199
Eades —
Willa Pierce. 598
Eagleson —
John 632
Earle —
Elizabeth . ..524
Early —
William Lewis
573
Eastburn —
Josey 69
Eaton —
Hannah . . . .423
Theophilus, Gov.
199
Ebborne —
Samuel 246
ECCLESTON —
Theodore . ... 68
ECKENRODE
H. G 463
H. J 462
ECKERLEY —
Sarah 455
Eddy —
Samuel 393
Willis 390
Zachariah . .323
Zachary . ... 176
Edgar —
King 435
Edolpe —
Robert 544
Edward —
I . ..53, 511, 537,
545
II 395, 502
III 539
VI.. .38,273, 503,
509, 540
Duke of Buck-
ingham . . . 544
Edwards —
Allen 602
Andrew . . . .601
D. C 602
Dora 602
(Dorsey)
Mrs 603
Elizabeth ....
601, 603
Etna 602
Frank 601
George 603
Georgia . ... 602
Guy 602
Hazel 603
Helen 602
James. . .589, 603
James T 601
Jane 603
John. 66, 601, 603
John A 602
Joseph . . 602, 603
J uriah 602
Katherine . . . 603
Keziah (Flowers)
601
Lucettie 594, 601
Maggie 602
Margaret (Nell)
603
Mattie 603
Mattie ( )
602
Norah ( )
603
Sallie Margaret
603
Samuel H. . . . 602
Samuel Hallie
602
Timothy . . . .603
William. 601, 603
William F....602
Willie 602
Edwins —
Dr 150
Flora May. . .150
Eells —
John 414
Eggleton —
Stephen . . . .398
Elder —
James 34
John 31, 33
John, Rev.. . .622
Elders —
Julia 120
Eldridge-^
Hannah 613
Elizabeth —
Queen. . .6:}, 414,
503, 505, 509,
540, 541
Ellicott —
Andrew. . .15, 17
Ellis —
Jay 585
Louise Scott. 585
Minnie Pearl. 285
Nancy Eliza. 285
Other Families
661
Else —
, Mr 80
Benjamin Baird
80
Charles 80
Emory 80
Gertrude . ... 80
John 80
Elvin —
Albert George
438
Helen Elizabeth
438, 441
Irma Jamison
441
Richard 451
Susan (Jami-
son) 438
Emery —
Bishop 375
Joseph 627
Emory —
(Williams)
Mrs 627
Empson —
Elizabeth . . . 502
Jane 502
John 502
Richard, Sir 502
Thomas . ... 502
Endicott —
Gov 245
Enos —
Jerusha . . . .494
Jerusha Hayden,
Maj. -Gen. 494,
501
EOGAN — .
356
Ericson —
Francis Siggins
110
Louis Francis 110
Ralph Louis 110
Erwin —
Marv 99
William 99
—43
ESAM —
Col 458
ESKEW —
John 593
Mary 593
Essex —
Earl of 505
EUBANKS —
■lames 597
James Gilliam
597
Martin 597
Evans —
Ann Aseneth 346,
348
Aurelia 346
Elizabeth . . .346
Elizabeth E. 347
Evan Reece . . 342
Frances Erminia
346
Harriet Durby
346
Harvey . . . .346
James T. 346, 347
John 37, 336,
345, 346
John St. John
346
Laura 346
Mary ,..346
Mary Eva . . 348
Matthias . . . 394
Peter 431
Rachel Hemphill
(Connely) 345
Robinson . . .346
Sarah F. ...342
William Connely,
Dr. ...346, 347
Everets —
, Mr. ... 494
Everett —
D. B. . .294, 302
D. B., Mrs. ..285
Elmay 302
Gwendolyn . .302
Rebecca Emily
79
Evlin —
Albert George 441
Anna 441
Family 441
Frank 441
Frederick . . .441
Ewe —
John 548
Eyers —
Wm 413
Eyre: —
Simon 556
Fagundas —
366
Fair—
, Mrs. . .370
Frederick, Rev.
369
Falconer —
Christina
(Stuart) .392
James 392
Penuel 392
Falls —
Henry 101
Rachel. .100, 101
Susannah (Ken-
nedy) .... 101
Farlee —
Betty 592
Clay 592
Curtis 592
George 592
Henry 592
James 592
Martha 592
William . ... 592
Winfield . ... 592
Farley —
Mary 228
Farrelly —
David M. 381, 382
John W. ...381
Patrick, Hon. 381
662
SlGGINS AND
FARRIN —
William A. .297
I^AYSSOUX —
Ann Callander
310
Callander Irvine
310, 311
Peter . .310, 311,
312
Peter, Capt...311
Peter, Dr. . . .311
Fenton —
George 402
George W 16
Reuben . ... 402
Reuben E., Hon.
16
Fergus—
King of Scot-
land 545
Ferguson —
Alexander ... 600
Margaret . ... 43
Ferry —
Capt 322
Jane 86
Sheldon C, Capt.
97
Fertig —
Samuel 108
Fiddler —
Noah, Rev. 90, 91
Field —
Claude 352
Claude, Mrs. 352
Max 352
Filer —
Dorcas .178, 181
Roger 181
Files —
, Mr. ...214
Clarence . . .214
John 214
Nettie 214
Fillmore —
Glenzen 35
Finch —
, Mr. ..494,
498
Helen 195
Henry, Sir. . . 543
Jane 543
John, Sir 543
Moyle, Sir ..543
FlNDLEY —
Miss 575
FlNLEY —
Emily 564
Finney —
Janet 380
Robert 380
Fisher —
, Mr 508
Anne 508
Elizabeth . ... 75
Fisk —
Professor . . . 345
Flanaghan —
Darius 54
Fleming —
A. J 108
Col 430
Elizabeth . . .426,
429
Jacob 429
Joanna 161
Stephen . ... 429
William . ...161
Flenner —
Bessie 213
Frank E 213
Katherine .. .213
Laura 213
Fletcher —
, Green 576
Augusta . . . .576
Clinton 576
Columbus . . .576
Elizabeth . . .235,
280, 396
Ellen 396
George 576
Georgina . . . 576
Green . . 558, 593
James. .576, 592,
593
Jefferson .... 576
John, Rev. . .369
Larkin 576
Lynn 576
Mary 576
Nancy ( )
576
Nancy (Scott)
593
Nellie 576
Nora 576
Woodson Green
576
Woodson Green,
Mrs 576
Flowers —
Adaline Allen 593
George Thomas
593, 598
Henry Colum-
bus 593
James Garfield
598
John 592
Juriah Lee . .593
J. W 592
Keziah 601
Keziah ( )
592
Lucettie Edwards
592
Lucile Eades 598
Lydus Givenier
598
Martha Ann 593
Mollie Ryan .598
Nancy Eliza-
beth 598
Nancy Jane . . 593
Porter Lee. . .598
Rupert Ryan 598
Sallie Hudson
592
Other Families
66^
Flowers — Cont.
William Thos. 598
William Porter
593
Floyd —
John 530
Footman —
Elizabeth . . . 453
Ford —
, Mr. ... 178
Betsy 31
Thomas . ... 548
FORDHAM —
Andrew .... 408
Foreman —
, Mr 19
Harvey M. . . 127,
128
FORTESCUE —
Ann Elizabeth
277
Gerald 277
FOSKETT —
Julia 578
Foster —
James 571
Katherine .. .377,
382
Randolph S.,
Bishop .... 633
Robert 382
Fowler —
Joseph 411
Martha 411
Philip ..411, 549
Sarah 449
Fox—
Jabez, Rev. . 113
Foy—
Edward A., Rev.
45
Ella Elizabeth 45
Fradenburgh (or
Fradenburg) —
J. N., Rev. . . 156,
637
Frame —
Samuel, Capt. 459
Francis —
French 453
Margaret . . .453
Mary 455
Philip, Sir. ..453
Tench 455
Franklin —
Benjamin . ... 17
Benjamin, Dr. 10
Frarey —
Addie 195
Emma 195
Harriet. 195
Mila 195
William . ...195
FrazER —
(Mitchell),
Mrs 469
Oliver 469
Freeman —
Edmund . . . .414
French —
Beryl Lovena 397
Elizabeth . . . 192
Daniel 618
Hugh 618
Margaret . . . 618
Frost —
, Mrs. . . 559
Stephen . ...557
William . ...557
FUELLHART —
John 34
Fuller —
G. W., Rev... 116
Hannah 403
Mary Elizabeth
148
Olive 115
Funk —
Jane (Griffiths)
343
Mary 343
William Rufus
343
Funston —
Frederick, Gen.
137
Galbraith —
Julia . ..310, 312
Galey —
John H 36
Galloway —
Joseph 10
Galpin —
Philip 448
Gam bill —
, Mrs.... 487
Garard —
Viola 397
Garaway —
Francis 511
Garber —
Michael, Mrs. 487
Gardner —
Capt 470
Francis .... 458
James Agg. .277
Mary 616
Garfield—
President . . .443,
633
Garlington —
Earnest A., Gen.
137
Garlt —
Fred 220
Garmon —
, Mr 601
Garner —
John 24, 384
Garnet —
Nannie 150
William New-
bold 151
Garrard —
Glenn 602
Tyra 602
Garruges —
Samuel 332
Gates —
. Mr 197
664
SlGGINS AND
Gates — Cont.
Gen 357
Geary —
Charles 208, 229
Charles G. ..207
Margaret . . .207
Geer —
John 176,221, 323
Oliver 221
George —
II 61
III 276
Frederick . . . 183
Maude M . . . 183
Susan (Petite)
183
Getty — i
Genevieve . . . 352
Robert 382
Gibson —
, Mr 603
Joseph 307
Leroy S 307
GlDDINGS —
George 112
GlFFORD —
, Mr 80
Frances E. . . . 80
Gilbert —
Prudence . . .200
Sarah 114
Gilchrist —
Charles Allen
573
GlLDAY —
, Mr 79
GlLFILLAN —
Alba J 159
Annie M. . . .443
Calvin W., Hon.
436, 443
Elizabeth . . .435
Emma M. . . .443
Genevieve . . . 159
Gertrude . ... 160
James . . 147, 442
James, Rev. 147,
159
•lane (Adams)
443
Jane (Robert-
son) 147
John... 322, 331
John Robertson
147
Rachel Dawson
160
Robert E. ...443
William L. . .443
Gill—
William . ...382
Gillespie —
Mary Ellen ... 33
Gillett —
B., Dr 346
GlLMAN —
James, Gen. 524
Gilmer —
Benjamin . . .464
James 463
Jane 464
Mary Ann . . 464
Tilford .463, 464
GlLMORE —
James 30
GlLSON —
, Mr. ...290
Betsey . . 15, 402
Gideon 15
John 15, 34,
400, 401, 402,
403
Lydia 402
Olive 402
Patience (Graves)
400,403
Reuben 403
Stephen 15
Gipson (or
Gibson) —
Martha 415
Roger 415
Gist—
Colonel 611
J. H 595
Judith (Bell) 611
Mary 595
Ravmond . . . 596
Trenton . . . .595
Willie 595
Gladden —
, Mr. .. .333
Glascock —
Edward . ... 503
Glass —
Lucy 179
GOBELL —
Phoeby 426
GODDARD —
Curtis 30
Godfrey —
Harriet 208
GOLDSBOROUGH —
, Miss . .454
GOLDTHWAITE —
Elizabeth . . . 399
GOLLOP —
Maxmilian ... 60
Gooch —
Geo. . . .475, 525
Good —
P. F 366
Samuel 366
Willis E 366
GOODALE —
Samuel, Rev. 183
Goode —
Eliza Royal
Jones 528
Frances Melvina
527,529
John 528
Thomas. 527, 529
Gooden —
Jane 532
Goodson —
Frances . . . .462
Jacob Peck . .462
Other Families
665
Goodwill —
Aaron Bradshaw
303
Bertha Viola 303
Bessie Josephine
303
Burton Bunker .
303
E.J 303
Ida 296
Jessie Belle .S03
John Russell
Lowell . . ..303
Maude Evaline
303
Melvina 296
Roy Ellwyn..303
Goodwin —
Jacob . . ..31, 34
Goodyear —
Stephen, Gov.
445
Gordon —
Anna (McClin-
tock) 343
Charles L....308
Hiram B 343
Ida 343
James Weslev
308
Gorges —
F., Sir 543
Gorman —
Emily 35
Gould —
Olive C 400
Grace —
Charles 136
Charles Sumner
134
Ellen . ..346,347
Gertrude Anna
134
Marcella .... 134
Michael 134
Peter, Capt. 134,
135, 136, 322,
328, 329
Graham —
, Mr 81
A., Mrs 284
Charles, Rev. 83
Josaphine . . . .54
Susan 623
Grandin —
Annie 372
Caroline 228, 230
Charles 371
Elija Bishop
.'.260, 371, 372
Emma Ann . . 371
Family 370
Frank 371
Guy M 372
Hannah .... 221
John 370
John Livingston.
. .260, 371, 372
Katherine . . .221
Maria 354
Maria De Camp
. .364, 366. 370
Maria J 371
Mary L 372
Morris Worts 371
Samuel 31,
370, 372
Stephen Girard
371
Susan 219
William J. . .371,
372
William, Jr... 371
Granger —
Thomas 424
Grant —
Chaffee 630
Chapman . . . 631
Clara Rachel 629
Frederick Dent
630
Isabel 503
Jesse, Jr. . . .631
Jesse Root. .626,
629,
Julia Dent ..630
Mary Frances
630
Miriam 630
Nellie 631
Orvil Lynch .630
Samuel Simpson
629
Ulysses, Jr.. .631
Ulysses S. ...83,
626, 629. 630
Ulysses S., Ill
630
Virginia Paine
630
Walter 503
Grattan —
John 481
Nancy 481
Graves—
John 403
Noah 403
Patience . . . 402,
403
Samuel 403
Sarah ( ) 403
Thomas . ...403
Gray —
Adda 350
Alexander . .272
Alice 616
David 272
David, Capt. .465
Edna 350
Eleanor . . . .283
Family 616
Francis . . . .616,
617, 618, 619
Francis Margaret
617
George. .617, 618
666
SlGGINS AND
Gray — Cont.
John Thompson
618
Joseph ...14, 30
L. G 350
Margaret (Peg-
gy) . .271, 619
Mary.... 617, 618
Nathaniel . .617,
618
Sarah 617
Grayson—
Colonel 218
Green—
Eliza 100
Erwin 100
Gen 465
George . .99, 100
James Pennel 100
Jane Simpson 100
Jane Young. .100
Joseph 101
Mary Ann. . .100
Mary Young . 100
Ruth . .100, 101
Simpson .... 100
T.M., Col. ...611
Wesley George
100
William Young
100
Greene —
Dorwin 396
General . ...357,
358, 559
Mary 396
Greenleaf—
James 456
Greer —
ElizabethHall 101
John . ..100, 101
Simpson . . . .101
William Young
101
Gregg —
. Mr 72
John.. 25, 30, 31
Samuel 25
Greye —
John 417
Griffin —
Gerald 47
Grace 587
Griffith —
Elizabeth . . . 626
James 626
Marv (Simpson)
626
Grizzle —
Alice 179
Dora 179
Fred 179
Henry 179
Mildred 179
Solomon . ... 179
Susie 179
Gross —
Abigail 452
Thomas 452
Grosvenor —
Sarah . .423, 425
Grove —
J. S 368
Groves —
James, K. . . .463
John 67
Gruber —
Jacob 92
GUERTHY —
Susan 627
Guffy —
Mary 270
Guignon —
Joseph 305
Julia Ann (Ru-
nion) 305
Julia Marietta
236, 305
Marietta . . . .236
Mary . . .236, 289
Guilford —
Mary 541
Thomas, Sir. 541
GuiON—
Mattie 587
Gui per —
Matthew . . . .221
GWATHMEY —
, Mr. . . . 519
Hadden—
Leonora Fays-
soux 311
Robert G. ...311
Haight —
William . ... 333
Haire —
Sarah . .625, 626
Hale —
Marvin .229. 230
Halftown —
, Mr 20
Hall —
Clarkson . . ..106
Francis 395
Homer S. . . . 106
James, Capt..465
James, Judge 520
Jennie 106
John 29
Joseph 104
106, 107, 147
Josiah 34
Mary 393
Mary Alice. . 106.
147
Rachel E. ...107
Rachel E. (Mc-
Grew) 104, 147
Reuben 106
Samuel 390
Susan Virginia
104
William . ... 124
Hallowell —
, Mr 75
Halstead —
, Mr. ...214
Jesse 214
Other Families
667
Halstead — Cont.
Mary 214
Maud 214
Ralph 214
Hamacher —
Cecilia E. . ..248
Jacob B 248
Susan (Shisler)
248
Hamblin —
Arthur H. . . 252
Harriet A ... 405
Hamer—
Jane 615
Ralph 613
Susan ( ) 613
Thomas . ... 613
Hamilton —
, Mrs. . . 486
Andrew .... 445,
454, 457
Charles Mann 437
Gov 10
Margaret . .445,
454
Mary . . . 486, 488
Hamlet —
W 409
Hamlin —
Albert 178
Annie 79
Benjamin B. . .79
Beniamin, B., Jr.
. 79
Blanche 79
Fletcher .79, 210
Frances 79
Georgia 178
James 79
Jessie 79
John 79
L. L 30
Mary 79
Myrtle 79
William 79
Hammer —
(or Hummer) —
Jane 271,
6.08, 615
(or HAMOR) —
Ralph . .614, 615
Hammond —
Andrew Snape,
Sir 62
Caroline 62
Edmund . . . .455
George 455
Hamor — i
Raphe, Capt. 613
Tho 614
Hancock —
Thomas . . ..613
Hancorne —
J. L 276
Margaret . . . 276
Hand —
Edward, Col. 218,
624
Elizabeth . . . 586
Hiram H 585
Martha A. . . . 579
Martha Ann
(Scott) . . .585
Martha A.
(Scott), D. A.
R. Record of
587
Haney —
Emma Siggins 48
John 48
Hanlon —
Ella 349
Hannah —
, Dr 230
Hannum —
Mary 492
William Honor
492
Harden —
, Mrs. . . 402
James . .470, 567
Harmon —
, Mrs. ... 15
Abraham . . . 608
Adam 60S
Mary Magdaline
608
Nancy (Bateman)
608
William 400
Harper —
Francis Isabella
134
James Meredith
134
Mary Ann . . . 134
Harris —
, Mr 78
Charles 595
Earnest 511
John 625
Joseph 524
Lillie 595
Nancy 383
Odus 595
Ralph 595
Simpson .... 625
William Augustus
625
Harrison —
, Miss . .430
George 613
John 533
S. S 298
Harty —
Margaret . . .113
Harvey —
Evelyn 480
James 589
Jennie 589
Nancy Harden.
593, 598
Harwood —
Jessie M. . . . 193
Haslet—
R. L., Mrs.. ..117
668
SlGGINS AND
Hastings —
Mary 117
Hatch —
Byron K. . . .306
Gertrude E...306
Grace Irene . . 306
John H 306
Lenora E 306
Margaret N..306
Mary D 306
Roy S 306
William D
236, 306
William D., Mrs.
284
Hatcher —
. Charles 599
Fannie 597
W 599
Haviland —
Ebenezer, M. D.
449
Hawke —
John 349
Hawkins —
Mildred 611
Hawks —
Eleazer 493
Quartus . .. .493
Havvorth —
Asbury 368
Bronson .... 368
Dawson . ... 368
Emaline . ... 368
Hannah .... 368
Lyman 368
Marv Jane ..368
Plummer . . . 368
Serrel 368
Stella . ......368
Thomas. 354, 364,
368
Hawte —
Jane 543
William, Sir .543
Hayes —
Dorothy 53
Eleanor Mary
53
Elizabeth Jane 53
James Calback 53
Jefferson Davis
628
Joel Addison. 628
John William. .53
Lucy White. .628
Mary Seeson .53
Norah 53
Richard Davis 53
Sarah Frances 53
Thomas Wallace
53
Valentine . ... 53
Varina Howell
628
Violet 53
William 53
WilliamDavis 628
Haynes —
Walker 398
Hays —
, Mr 53
Elizabeth (Sig-
gins), Mrs... 53
Francis (Calback)
53
James. . .220, 224
Jennie 348
John 53
Mark 220
Haysler —
Charles H.. ..480
Elizabeth (Hum-
brock) 480
Hattie 480
Hay ward —
Ann 425
Anna . ..... 423
Catherine '. . .544
Peter 66
Roland, Sir.. .544
Hazard —
David . . . . 383
Hazeltine —
Laban, Dr.. . .205
Heasley —
Catherine . . .100
Daniel 100
Mary 100
Heath —
Susannah . . .561
Heaton —
Jabez 393
Hemingway —
Adelaide (Ed-
munds) ...262
Alfred Tyler. 262
Franklin White
263
Jane 263
Ralph 262
Heminway —
Julia Ann. . . .195
Hemphil —
Catherine (Wil-
helm) 441
Effie 441
George 441
Hemphill —
Andrew, Rev.. 36
Henderson —
, Mr 290
Daniel 291
David 35
El'zabeth ... 72
Frank 481
John 291
James 291
Mary 167
Rachel . ... 133
Richard. 290, 291
William . ... 291
Henry —
1 546
HI 55
VII.66,152,502,539
Other Families
669
Henry — Cont.
VIII. . 57, 503. 538.
540, 543
Betsy Martin. 571
James 464
James Worth 57 1
Jennie 42
Margaret Jane 571
Martha 571
Mary Ann. . .571
Matilda 571
Mildred Grizelle
571
Miranda Grizelle
576
Nancy Simpson
571
Samuel 571
Sarah Ann. . .371
Thomas 558, 570
Thomas Duncan
571
William . ...464
Hensley —
Mary 603
Heremon —
356
Heterborn —
George 34
Hicks —
John 34
Levi 34
HlLDEBRAND —
34
Hill —
Dr 430
Ida 104
Joanna 430
John W 30
Joseph 430
Margerv . ... 198
William 430
Hillis —
Fannie 575
John T 574,
575
Milton 575
Theophilus . .575
William . ...532
HlMROD —
Sarah 247
HlNCHCLIFF —
Alfred 252
William 252
HlNDMAN —
Alexander . .566
J. R., Lieut. .596
Polly Catherine
592, 596
HlNGHAM —
Joseph 190
Saraw 190
HlNKEL —
Hannah .... 139
Hitchcock —
, Mr. ...208
Delmar 208
Ebenezer . . . 202
Ford 208
Grace 208
Loraine Allen .
496
Samuel, Hon. 496
Stephen . ... 208
Ward 208
Hoar —
Leonard, Jr.. 201
Hobson —
E. H., Col.... 596
Wm. E., Ma.j..596
Hodges —
William 238
Hodgson —
Robert 612
Hoffman —
Ann 377
Anna 389
Sallie . . . .24,384
Sarah 382
Hoge —
Moses, Rev. .478
William . ... 446
Hogue —
John 392
Julia 392
HOLCOMB —
Prudence . . .194
H OLDEN —
Isabel le 303
HOLEMAN —
Nellie 167
Holles—
, Mr. ...543
HOLLWELL —
, Mr 70
Holmes —
Rebekah . . . .191
Holt —
, Mr. ... 524
Gov 524
Sarah . ... 405
Holton —
Edwin Lee . . . 584
Mary 584
Honeywood —
Elizabeth . . .544
John 538
Thomas . . . 544
Honore —
Henrv Hamilton
630
Ida H 630
HONYWOOD —
Priscilla . . . .544
Thomas, Sir .544
Hood —
Admiral . ... 7,
60, 74, 94
Alice 57
Ann 59, 60
Alexander . . .56,
58, 59, 64, 65,
72, 73, 74, 637
Alexander (Bar-
on Bridport)
59
Alexander (2d
Bart.) 63
670
SlGGINS AND
Hood — Cent.
Alexander (Capt.
Royal Navy) .
61, 63
Alexander (Vis-
count Bridport)
61
Alexander (1st
Viscount and
Baron Brid-
port) 62
Arthur. ..59, 61,
64, 65, 637
Arthur, Rev. .58
Arthur William
60
Baron 62
Baroness . ... 62
Beach, Mrs.
58
Catherine . ... 72
Elizabeth . . . 59,
73
Elizabeth Periam
64
Family . ..57, 72
Francis Wheeler
62
George 71
Henry (2d Vis-
count) . . . .62
Honore 58
Jacob S 35
James 72
Jane 58, 73
Joan ( )..57
Joane 58
Joanna 57
John 57, 58,
60, 69, 71, 73
Mary 72
Mary Anne ... 72,
73
Nathaniel . 72, 73
Richard . .58, 60
Robert . . 73, 221
Samuel . .58, 60,
61, 64, 65, 637
Samuel, Admiral
ix, x
Samuel (Admiral
Lord Viscount)
60
Samuel (2nd
Baron Brid-
port) . . . 62, 63
Samuel (1st
Bart.) 64
Samuel, Capt.. 60
Samuel. Rev. . .x,
59, 69
Samuel, Sir. .59,
70, 637
Samuel, Sir Ad-
miral 59,
61, 62
Sarah . . . . ix, x,
7, 40, 50, 60,
72, 73, 77, 82,
94
Tremor 58
Walker 60
W. H 117
W. H., Mrs... 117
William . . . 72, 73
Hooker —
, Mr. ... 418
Hooton —
Jacob 571
Hopkins —
, Mrs. . . 402
Anne 276
Edward 276
Edwin, Hon.. 276
Mary 477
Northey, Gen.
. . 277
Rebecca .... 478
Richard . . . .276
William . .. .276
Horn —
Daniel 283
Horton —
Peter D 30
Hoskins —
Ann. ..67,68,69
Anne 60
Aurelius . . 67, 69
Family 66
Henry 67
Martha . ..67, 69
Mary x,
65, 67, 69
Mercy 67, 69
Richard . . .x, 65
67, 68, 69
Roger 66
Hoskyns —
Anne 60
Bennet, Sir . ..66
Family 65
John 65, 67
John, Rev. . . .65
Margery 65
Mary 59
Richard 59
Serjeant . .65, 66
Hotchkiss —
Abigail 390
Burt 405
Caroline . . . .390
David, Rev. .390
Hough —
Benjamin . . . 625
House —
Deborah . ... 258
W. F 165
Houser —
Helen Estella.226
Henry Lacy . . 226
Isabel 226
James. .221, 225
Walter Living-
ston 225
Houston (or
Hudson) —
Ann 270
Hovey —
Clarence .... 230
Other Families
671
Howard —
Gen 357
Matthew . . . .428
Philip 541
Sarah 428
Sarah (Dorsey)
428
Thomas 504
Howe — ■
Barbara Ellen
(Armstrong)
158
Baxter 152
Bezaliel, Lieut.
152
Charles Cardwell
McCabe . ..150
Curtis 158
Curtis Havens
150
Earl 63
Edward . ... 152
E. Harriet . . . ix,
xii, 93, 117, 637
Elias 153
Elizabeth . 153
Emeline Harriet
145
Emeline Harriet
(Siggins) .153
Estes, Dr. ... 152
Ezekiel, Col. .152
Family 152
General 455
George Grant
157, 158
George Siggins
149
Harriet . . .7, 18,
143
Henry 153
Irma Barnes . 150
Jaazaniah . . . 152
Jemima 153
John ...152, 153
John Dawson
150, 151, 152
John Dawson,
Mrs 150
Julia Ward ..153
Lord 62
Marion 151
Roberta McGee
(Keith) ..151
Samuel G. . . .153
Simeon 157
Thomas . . . .152
Walter Simpson
151
Wesley Curtis,
Col. . . 147, 149,
154, 158, 322,
329
Wesley Curtis, Jr.
149, 150
Wesley Curtis,
Mrs 156
William, Rev. 157
Howell —